Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, How It Was Prepared, sentence 23

And, after all, the best way in everything you undertake, great as well as small, is to expect no thanks for anything you may do, even when it refers to "soup from a sausage skewer."

Who acts: all, you, thanks · What happens: way, undertake, be, do, refer · To what, where: great, everything, soup, sausage skewer

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, How It Was Prepared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, you, thanks), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 way	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 all	punct
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 way	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 all	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 expect	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 everything	case
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 undertake	obl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 undertake	nsubj
12	undertake	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 way	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 great	punct
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 undertake	obj
15	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	18 small	cc
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 as	fixed
17	as	as	ADP	_	15 as	fixed
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 great	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 way	punct
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 expect	cop
21	to	to	PART	_	22 expect	mark
22	expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 thanks	det
24	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 expect	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 anything	case
26	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 thanks	nmod
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 do	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 do	aux
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 anything	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 refers	punct
31	even	even	ADV	_	34 refers	advmod
32	when	when	SCONJ	_	34 refers	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 refers	nsubj
34	refers	refer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 expect	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	37 soup	mark
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 soup	punct
37	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 refers	obj
38	from	from	ADP	_	41 skewer	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 skewer	det
40	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 skewer	compound
41	skewer	skewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 soup	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 expect	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 expect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	way		all				tree rules
2	undertake	present	you	great	everything		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent great=Eventuality
3	is	present				expect property	tree rules
4	do	may	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	refer	present	thanks	soup	a sausage skewer		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent soup=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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