Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 219

But you, my good man, seem to have blotted your hands sufficiently with ink, and to have come to that age of satiety that you need not be running about every year for stories, especially as there are much more important things to be done.

Who acts: you, that, important things · What happens: seem, blot, come, not run about, be, do · To what, where: hands, age

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, that, important things), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 seem	cc
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 seem	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 man	nmod:poss
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 you	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
8	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	11 blotted	mark
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 blotted	aux
11	blotted	blot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 seem	xcomp
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 blotted	obj
14	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	_	11 blotted	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 ink	case
16	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blotted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 come	cc
19	to	to	PART	_	21 come	mark
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 seem	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 age	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 age	det
24	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 satiety	case
26	satiety	satiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 age	nmod
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 running	nsubj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 running	nsubj
29	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 running	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 running	advmod
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 running	aux
32	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 age	parataxis
33	about	about	ADV	_	35 year	advmod
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 year	det
35	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 running	obl
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 stories	case
37	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 running	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 are	punct
39	especially	especially	ADV	_	42 are	advmod
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 are	mark
41	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	42 are	expl
42	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 running	conj
43	much	much	ADV	_	44 more	advmod
44	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	45 important	advmod
45	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 things	amod
46	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 are	nsubj
47	to	to	PART	_	49 done	mark
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 done	aux:pass
49	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 things	acl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	present	you					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	blot	to-infinitive · perfect	you not said here	your hands			with ink; sufficiently property	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Destination with ink=Theme
3	come	to-infinitive · perfect	you not said here			to that age of satiety		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to age=Initial_Location
4	not run about	present · progressive	that			year	for stories	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for story=Beneficiary
5	does	present	important things		there		especially property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	do	to-infinitive · passive	important things not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»

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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