Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 54

"It is really not at all pleasant to have a hole bored through one, but we can submit to a great deal when it is done with a good intention.

Who acts: It, we · What happens: not be, have, bore, submit, do · To what, where: all, hole

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 (It, we), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 pleasant	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pleasant	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 pleasant	cop
4	really	really	ADV	_	8 pleasant	advmod
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 pleasant	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 pleasant	obl
8	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 have	mark
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 pleasant	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hole	det
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
13	bored	bore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 hole	acl
14	through	through	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 bored	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 submit	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 submit	cc
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 submit	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 submit	aux
20	submit	submit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 pleasant	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 deal	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 deal	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 deal	amod
24	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 submit	obl
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 done	advmod
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 done	nsubj:pass
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 done	aux:pass
28	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 submit	advcl
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 intention	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 intention	det
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 intention	amod
32	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 done	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 pleasant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	It		all	pleasant property	tree rules
2	have in a quote	to-infinitive		a hole			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient
3	bore in a quote	participle		a hole not said here		through one	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through one=Location
4	submit in a quote	can	we			to a great deal	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to deal=Theme
5	do in a quote	present · passive		hole		with a good intention	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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