Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 11

You are a clever man; and a practical man; but you understand no more about poetry than that cask yonder."

Who acts: You · What happens: be, understand · To what, where: clever man, more

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. 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	5 man	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 man	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 man	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	practical	practical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	vocative
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 understand	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 understand	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 understand	nsubj
14	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 man	parataxis
15	no	no	ADV	_	16 more	advmod
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 understand	obj
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 poetry	case
18	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 more	obl
19	than	than	ADP	_	21 cask	case
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 cask	det
21	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 more	obl
22	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	21 cask	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	You	a clever man				a practical man vocative	tree rules
2	understand	present	you	more					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=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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