Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 22

You should try how you would like to listen to all the trivial things in a court of justice."

Who acts: You · What happens: try, like, listen

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 (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	3 try	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 try	aux
3	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 like	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 like	aux
7	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 try	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 listen	mark
9	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 like	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 things	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 things	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 things	det
13	trivial	trivial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 things	amod
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 listen	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 court	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 court	det
17	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 things	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 justice	case
19	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 court	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 try	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	try	should	You		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	like not said to happen	would	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	listen not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	to all trivial things in a court of justice	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to thing=Theme

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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