Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 83

I believe I am quite as good as many of those who sit in church and give themselves airs."

Who acts: I · What happens: believe, be, sit, give · To what, where: church, tears · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 believe	nsubj
2	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 good	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 good	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 good	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 good	advmod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 believe	ccomp
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 those	case
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 those	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 those	case
11	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 good	obl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 sit	nsubj
13	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 those	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 church	case
15	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sit	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 give	cc
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sit	conj
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 give	obj
19	airs	air	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 give	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 believe	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	believe	present	I				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	I			as those; good property	tree rules
3	sit	present			church		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in church=Location
4	give	infinitive		tears = tear			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient air=Theme

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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