Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 3

Justice must still be carried out, even when one has relations and good friends among the prize committee; but that the snail should have received the second prize, I consider almost an insult to myself."

Who acts: one, I · What happens: carry out, have, receive, consider · To what, where: Justice, relations, snail, insult, myself

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, I), 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	Justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 carried	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	5 carried	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 carried	aux:pass
5	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 carried	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	11 has	advmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 has	advmod
10	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 carried	conj
12	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 has	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 friends	cc
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 friends	amod
15	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 relations	conj
16	among	among	ADP	_	19 committee	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 committee	det
18	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 committee	compound
19	committee	committee	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 relations	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 consider	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 consider	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 received	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 snail	det
24	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 received	nsubj:pass
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 received	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 received	aux
27	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 consider	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 prize	det
29	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 prize	amod
30	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 received	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 received	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 consider	nsubj
33	consider	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 carried	conj
34	almost	almost	ADV	_	36 insult	advmod
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 insult	det
36	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 consider	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 myself	case
38	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 consider	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 consider	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 consider	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	carry out	must · passive		Justice		still		vn act-114 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	have	present	one	relations and good friends			among the prize committee	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Patient
3	receive	should · perfect · passive		the snail				vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme prize=Location
4	consider	present	I	a insult	myself			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent insult=Attribute

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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