Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 3

That has nothing to do with the good temper; but I will say he was lively, good-looking round, and fat; he was both in appearance and character a complete contradiction to his profession. "

Who acts: That, I, temper · What happens: have, do, say, be, look round · To what, where: nothing, appearance · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (That, I, temper), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 has	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nothing	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 temper	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 temper	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 temper	amod
9	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 say	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 say	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 say	aux
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 has	parataxis
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lively	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lively	cop
17	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 say	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 looking	punct
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 looking	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 good	punct
21	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 lively	parataxis
22	round	round	ADV	_	21 looking	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fat	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fat	cc
25	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 looking	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 appearance	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 appearance	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 appearance	cop
29	both	both	CCONJ	_	31 appearance	cc:preconj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 appearance	case
31	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 character	cc
33	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 appearance	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 contradiction	det
35	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 contradiction	amod
36	contradiction	contradiction	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 appearance	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 profession	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 profession	nmod:poss
39	profession	profession	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 contradiction	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	That	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	That not said here	nothing not said here		with the good temper	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	future	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	temper			lively property	tree rules
5	look round	gerund				round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	is	past	temper		appearance and character and a complete contradiction to temper's profession		tree rules

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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