Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 25
He had enough to live upon, and something to spare; but owing to his refined tastes the least thing in the world annoyed him.
Who acts: man, something · What happens: have, live, spare, owe, refine, taste · To what, where: something, least thing, world
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 (man, something), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 2 had | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 live | mark |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 live | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 something | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 something | cc |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 had | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 spare | mark |
| 11 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 something | acl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 owing | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 owing | cc |
| 14 | owing | owe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 had | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 18 tastes | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tastes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | refined | refine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 tastes | mark |
| 18 | tastes | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 owing | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 thing | det |
| 20 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 thing | amod |
| 21 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tastes | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 world | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 world | det |
| 24 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 thing | nmod |
| 25 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 thing | appos |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 annoyed | nsubj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | man | something | enough property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | something not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spare | to-infinitive | man not said here | something not said here | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | owe | gerund | man not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | refine | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | taste | present | man not said here | the least thing | the world | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in world=Location |
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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