Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 117
It is a great failing not to be able to appreciate what is amusing.
Who acts: poetry · What happens: be, not be, appreciate · To what, where: great failing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poetry), 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 | 5 failing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 failing | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 failing | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 failing | amod |
| 5 | failing | failing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 able | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 able | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 able | cop |
| 9 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 failing | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 appreciate | mark |
| 11 | appreciate | appreciate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 able | xcomp |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 amusing | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 amusing | cop |
| 14 | amusing | amusing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 appreciate | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 failing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | poetry | a great failing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | to-infinitive | poetry not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | appreciate | to-infinitive | poetry not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | is | present | amusing property | tree rules |
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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