Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 93

Look yonder, and you will see in every window three clerks and a head clerk; and the old head clerk is the worst of all, for he can't understand anything."

Who acts: you, old head clerk, dish · What happens: look, see, be, not understand · To what, where: three clerks, window, anything

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 (you, old head clerk, dish), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	1 Look	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 see	cc
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Look	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 window	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 window	det
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obl
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 clerks	nummod
12	clerks	clerk	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 see	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 clerk	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 clerk	det
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 clerk	compound
16	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clerks	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 worst	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 worst	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 clerk	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 clerk	amod
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 clerk	compound
22	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 worst	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 worst	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 worst	det
25	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	1 Look	parataxis
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 all	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 worst	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 understand	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 understand	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 understand	nsubj
31	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 understand	aux
32	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 understand	advmod
33	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Look	parataxis
34	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 understand	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here			yonder property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	future	you	three clerks and a head clerk	every window		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer clerk=Stimulus
3	is	present	the old head clerk			of all; bad property	tree rules
4	not understand	can	dish	anything			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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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