Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 17
But this much is clear and plain, that you have not done the least for your inner development, or you would have produced something else.
Who acts: much, you, your · What happens: be, not do, produce, develop · To what, where: least, you
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much, you, your), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 clear | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 much | det |
| 3 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clear | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 clear | cop |
| 5 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 plain | cc |
| 7 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clear | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 done | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 done | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 done | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 done | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 done | advmod |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 clear | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 least | det |
| 15 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 done | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 development | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 development | nmod:poss |
| 18 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 development | amod |
| 19 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 least | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 produced | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 produced | cc |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 produced | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 produced | aux |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 produced | aux |
| 25 | produced | produce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 clear | conj |
| 26 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 produced | obj |
| 27 | else | else | ADV | _ | 26 something | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 clear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this much | clear property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | this much not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not do | present · perfect | you | the least | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | produce | would · perfect · passive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | develop | your | nom development «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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