Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 10
It was no use to read and be industrious, for if a person was not well-born, he could never achieve anything. "
Who acts: court, person · What happens: be, read, not bear, not achieve · To what, where: use, person, anything
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (court, person), 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 | 4 use | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | cop |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 use | det |
| 4 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 read | mark |
| 6 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 use | acl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 industrious | cc |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 industrious | cop |
| 9 | industrious | industrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 read | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 achieve | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 achieve | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 born | mark |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 person | det |
| 14 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 born | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 born | aux:pass |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 born | advmod |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 born | advmod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 well | punct |
| 19 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 achieve | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 born | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 achieve | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 achieve | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 achieve | advmod |
| 24 | achieve | achieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 read | conj |
| 25 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 achieve | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | court | no use | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | read | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | industrious property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not bear a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | a person | well property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not achieve | could | person | anything | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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