Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 49
It is no use to stand upon ceremony.
Who acts: shop · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: use, ceremony
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shop), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 use | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | cop |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 use | det |
| 4 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stand | mark |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 use | acl |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 ceremony | case |
| 8 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | shop | no use | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | to-infinitive | ceremony | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon ceremony=Location |
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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