Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 11
So I have inherited from him, not only my good temper, but a habit of going often to the churchyard, which is good, when done in a proper humor; and then also I take in the Intelligencer, just as he used to do.
Who acts: I, habit, churchyard, truth, my · What happens: inherit, go, be, do, take, use · To what, where: good temper, churchyard, proper humor, Intelligencer
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, habit, churchyard, truth), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 inherited | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 inherited | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 inherited | aux |
| 4 | inherited | inherit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 inherited | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 temper | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 temper | advmod |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 temper | advmod |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 temper | nmod:poss |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 temper | amod |
| 12 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inherited | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 habit | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 habit | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 habit | det |
| 16 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inherited | obl |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 going | mark |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 habit | acl |
| 19 | often | often | ADV | _ | 18 going | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 churchyard | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 churchyard | det |
| 22 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 going | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 good | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 good | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 good | cop |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 churchyard | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 done | punct |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 done | advmod |
| 29 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 good | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 humor | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 humor | det |
| 32 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 humor | amod |
| 33 | humor | humor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 done | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 take | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 take | cc |
| 36 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 take | advmod |
| 37 | also | also | ADV | _ | 39 take | advmod |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 take | nsubj |
| 39 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 inherited | conj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 Intelligencer | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Intelligencer | det |
| 42 | Intelligencer | Intelligencer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 take | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 used | punct |
| 44 | just | just | ADV | _ | 47 used | advmod |
| 45 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 47 used | mark |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 used | nsubj |
| 47 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 Intelligencer | acl:relcl |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 do | mark |
| 49 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 used | xcomp |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 inherited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inherit | present · perfect | I | my good temper | from truth; a habit obl | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from he=Source | |||
| 2 | go | gerund | a habit not said here | the churchyard | often property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to churchyard=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is | present | the churchyard | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | participle | the churchyard not said here | a proper humor | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | take | present | I | the Intelligencer | then | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in intelligencer=Location | |||
| 6 | use | past | truth | the Intelligencer not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent intelligencer=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | do | to-infinitive | truth not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | temper | my | nom temper «feeling 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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