Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 29
Who would trouble themselves about such trifles? especially at a comedy, where every one is expected to be amused.
Who acts: one · What happens: expect, amuse · To what, where: one
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 (one), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 trouble | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 trouble | aux |
| 3 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 trouble | nmod |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 trifles | case |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 trifles | amod |
| 7 | trifles | trifle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 trouble | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 comedy | punct |
| 9 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 12 comedy | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 comedy | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 comedy | det |
| 12 | comedy | comedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trifles | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 expected | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 expected | advmod |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 expected | aux:pass |
| 18 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 comedy | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 amused | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 amused | aux:pass |
| 21 | amused | amuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 expected | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trouble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | present · passive | every one | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | amuse not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | every one not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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