Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 68

Every one says she is very beautiful," thought he to himself; "but what is the use of that if she is to be shut up in a copper castle surrounded by so many towers.

Who acts: one, princess · What happens: say, be, think, shut up, surround · To what, where: soldier, use, princess, copper castle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, princess), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 beautiful	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 beautiful	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 beautiful	advmod
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 beautiful	parataxis
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thought	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 thought	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 use	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 use	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 use	cc
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 use	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 use	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 use	det
20	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 that	case
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 use	nmod
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 shut	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 shut	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 shut	aux:pass
26	to	to	PART	_	28 shut	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 shut	aux:pass
28	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 use	acl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 shut	compound:prt
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 castle	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 castle	det
32	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 castle	compound
33	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shut	obl
34	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 castle	acl
35	by	by	ADP	_	38 towers	case
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 many	advmod
37	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 towers	amod
38	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 surrounded	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	every one					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	princess				beautiful property	tree rules
3	think speech: other in a quote	past		soldier	soldier			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
4	is a	present		the use			of that	tree rules
5	shut up a condition, not said to happen	present · passive	every one not said here	princess		a copper castle		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	surround	participle		a copper castle not said here			by many towers	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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