Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 100

And this report we have wet from the press of the head clerk and the corporation of printers--but they are not to be depended upon in the least.

Who acts: head clerk · What happens: not depend, press · To what, where: printers

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head clerk), 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	_	6 wet	cc
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 report	det
3	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wet	nsubj
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wet	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wet	aux
6	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 press	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 press	det
9	press	press	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wet	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 clerk	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 clerk	det
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 clerk	compound
13	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 press	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 corporation	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 corporation	det
16	corporation	corporation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 clerk	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 printers	case
18	printers	printer	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 corporation	nmod
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 depended	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 depended	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 depended	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 depended	aux:pass
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 depended	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	26 depended	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 depended	aux:pass
26	depended	depend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 wet	conj
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 least	case
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 least	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 least	det
30	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 depended	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not depend	present · passive		printers = printer				upon the least	tree rules
2	press		the head clerk and the corporation of printers						nom press «state intransitive»: of=agent

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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