Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 34

It must be a shocking thing to have a guilty conscience, and to be sneaking about on account of wicked deeds.

Who acts: silver · What happens: be, have, sneak, account · To what, where: shocking thing, guilty conscience, account, wicked deeds

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silver), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thing	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	shocking	shocking	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 have	mark
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	acl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 conscience	det
10	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 conscience	amod
11	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sneaking	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sneaking	cc
14	to	to	PART	_	16 sneaking	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 sneaking	aux
16	sneaking	sneak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 have	advcl
17	about	about	ADV	_	16 sneaking	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 account	case
19	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sneaking	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 deeds	case
21	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 deeds	amod
22	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 account	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	must	silver	a shocking thing			tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive		a guilty conscience			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conscience=Patient
3	sneak	to-infinitive · progressive			account of wicked deeds	about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on account=Trajectory
4	account			wicked deeds			nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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