Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 41

Each believes his own way the best, and after all, the proverb signifies nothing.' '

Who acts: Each · What happens: believe, signify · To what, where: own way, nothing

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 believes	nsubj
2	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 way	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 believes	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 best	det
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 way	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 signifies	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 signifies	cc
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 signifies	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 all	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 proverb	det
14	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 all	nmod
15	signifies	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 believes	parataxis
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 signifies	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 signifies	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 signifies	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 believes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	present	Each	soup's own way					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
2	signify	present		nothing			after all		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme

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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