Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 56

But in spite of his clever head, the builder was still but a poor, inferior bird; and how can a sparrow expect to be admitted into the society of peacocks?

Who acts: builder, sparrow · What happens: be, expect, admit, spite · To what, where: poor inferior bird, spite, society, clever head

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (builder, sparrow), 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	_	18 bird	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 spite	case
3	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bird	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 head	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 head	amod
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spite	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 spite	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 builder	det
10	builder	builder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bird	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bird	cop
12	still	still	ADV	_	18 bird	advmod
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 bird	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bird	det
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bird	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 poor	punct
17	inferior	inferior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bird	amod
18	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 expect	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 expect	cc
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 expect	advmod
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 expect	aux
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sparrow	det
24	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 expect	nsubj
25	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 bird	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	28 admitted	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 admitted	aux:pass
28	admitted	admit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 expect	xcomp
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 society	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 society	det
31	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 admitted	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 peacocks	case
33	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 society	nmod
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 bird	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	the builder	a poor inferior bird	spite of castle's clever head	still	tree rules
2	expect	can	a sparrow				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	admit speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	a sparrow not said here		the society of peacocks		vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»
4	spite			castle's clever head			nom spite «feeling 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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