Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 68

Even if a man has a good character, it is of no use for him to deny what is said of him, for he is not considered an impartial judge of himself.

Who acts: man, character · What happens: have, be, deny, say, not consider · To what, where: good character, man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, character), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	5 has	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 has	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 character	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 character	amod
8	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 use	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 use	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 use	cop
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 use	case
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 use	det
14	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 use	nmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 deny	mark
18	deny	deny	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 use	acl
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 said	nsubj:pass
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 said	aux:pass
21	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 deny	ccomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 considered	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 considered	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 considered	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 considered	aux:pass
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 considered	advmod
29	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 said	conj
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 judge	det
31	impartial	impartial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 judge	amod
32	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 considered	xcomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 himself	case
34	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 judge	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	a man	a good character		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Patient
2	is	present	character		of no use; for man	tree rules
3	deny	to-infinitive	a man not said here			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present · passive			of man	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
5	not consider	present · passive		man		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=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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