Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 85

And so he hit out boldly at every second poet, because he could not be a poet himself.

Who acts: man · What happens: hit out, not be · To what, where: poet

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	_	4 hit	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 hit	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 hit	compound:prt
6	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 hit	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 poet	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 poet	det
9	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 poet	amod
10	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 poet	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 poet	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 poet	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 poet	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 poet	advmod
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 poet	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 poet	det
18	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obl
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	18 poet	nmod:unmarked
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit out	past	man					at every second poet; boldly property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at poet=Patient
2	not is a	could	man	a poet				man nmod:unmarked	tree rules

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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