Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 49

What he thought was sufficiently expressed in his features and movements: "Miserable beggars, who are looking in, you are nothing in comparison to me."

Who acts: footman, Miserable beggars, you · What happens: think, express, look in, be, feature · To what, where: features, nothing, footman, comparison · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (footman, Miserable beggars, you), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 expressed	nsubj:outer
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 expressed	aux:pass
5	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	_	6 expressed	advmod
6	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 features	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 features	nmod:poss
9	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 expressed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 movements	cc
11	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 features	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 looking	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 beggars	punct
14	Miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beggars	amod
15	beggars	beggar	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 looking	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 looking	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 looking	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 looking	aux
19	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 expressed	parataxis
20	in	in	ADV	_	19 looking	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 nothing	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 nothing	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 nothing	cop
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 looking	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 comparison	case
26	comparison	comparison	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 nothing	nmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 nothing	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 looking	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 looking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	footman					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	express	past · passive				footman's features and movements	sufficiently property	tree rules
3	look in in a quote	present · progressive	Miserable beggars					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is a in a quote	present	you	nothing	footman	comparison		tree rules
5	feature		footman					nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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