Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 217

But your royal highness must allow me to observe, that he is very proud of being considered a man, and to put him in a good humor, so that he may answer correctly, he must be treated as a man."

Who acts: royal highness, highness · What happens: allow, observe, be, consider, put, answer · To what, where: me, man, highness, good humor

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (royal highness, highness), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 allow	cc
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 highness	nmod:poss
3	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 highness	amod
4	highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 allow	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 allow	aux
6	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 allow	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 observe	mark
9	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 allow	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 proud	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 proud	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 proud	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 proud	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 proud	advmod
15	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 observe	ccomp
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 considered	mark
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 considered	aux:pass
18	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 proud	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 considered	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 put	cc
23	to	to	PART	_	24 put	mark
24	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 allow	parataxis
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 humor	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 humor	det
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 humor	amod
29	humor	humor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 answer	punct
31	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	35 answer	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 so	fixed
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 answer	nsubj
34	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 answer	aux
35	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 put	conj
36	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	35 answer	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 treated	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 treated	nsubj:pass
39	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 treated	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 treated	aux:pass
41	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 answer	parataxis
42	as	as	ADP	_	44 man	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 man	det
44	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 treated	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 allow	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 allow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	allow	must	your royal highness		me			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	observe not said to happen	to-infinitive	your royal highness not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	highness				proud property	tree rules
4	consider	gerund · passive	highness not said here	a man				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»
5	put	to-infinitive		highness		a good humor		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in humor=Destination
6	answer speech: assert	may	highness				correctly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	treat	must · passive		highness			as a man	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as man=Attribute

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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