Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 58
Then, if any of our friends act absurdly, no one need to be vexed about it.
Who acts: any · What happens: act, vex · To what, where: one need
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 (any), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 act | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 act | mark |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 act | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 friends | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friends | nmod:poss |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 any | nmod |
| 8 | act | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | absurdly | absurdly | ADV | _ | 8 act | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 need | punct |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 need | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 need | compound |
| 13 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 act | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 vexed | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 vexed | aux:pass |
| 16 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 need | acl |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 vexed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 act | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | present | any | no one need | then | absurdly property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | vex | to-infinitive · passive | any not said here | no one need not said here | about need | 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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