Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 199

You'll know the proper deportment, and then you can show yourself in the very pick of society.'

Who acts: You · What happens: know, show, pick · To what, where: proper deportment, yourself, society

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 know	aux
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deportment	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deportment	amod
6	deportment	deportment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 know	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 show	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 show	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 show	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 show	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 show	aux
12	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 know	conj
13	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 show	iobj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 pick	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pick	det
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 pick	advmod
17	pick	pick	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 show	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 society	case
19	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pick	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	future	You	the proper deportment				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer deportment=Stimulus
2	show	can	you		yourself	then	in the pick of society	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient in pick=Topic
3	pick			society				nom pick «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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