Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 59
It is a good thing against sea-sickness to have a steel stomach, and not to forget one's own importance.
Who acts: shell · What happens: be, have, not forget · To what, where: good thing, steel stomach, own importance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shell), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 sickness | case |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sickness | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sea | punct |
| 9 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stomach | det |
| 13 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stomach | compound |
| 14 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 forget | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 forget | cc |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 forget | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 forget | mark |
| 19 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 have | conj |
| 20 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 importance | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 one | case |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 importance | amod |
| 23 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forget | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | shell | a good thing | against sea sickness | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | a steel stomach | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stomach=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not forget | to-infinitive | one's own importance | 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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