Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 67

I choose out of every comedy what I like best, and no one is offended.

Who acts: I, one · What happens: choose out, like, be · To what, where: comedy, best

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 choose	nsubj
2	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 comedy	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 comedy	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 comedy	det
6	comedy	comedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 choose	obl
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 comedy	appos
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 like	nsubj
9	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
10	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 like	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 offended	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 offended	cc
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 offended	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 offended	cop
16	offended	offended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 choose	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 choose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	choose out	present	I	every comedy		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comedy=Theme
2	like	present	I	best		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot good=Theme
3	is	present	no one		offended property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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