Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 31
It is a foolish fancy to look upon poets as different to other men.
Who acts: place · What happens: be, look · To what, where: foolish fancy
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 (place), 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 fancy | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fancy | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fancy | det |
| 4 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fancy | amod |
| 5 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fancy | acl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 poets | case |
| 9 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 look | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 different | case |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 look | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 different | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fancy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | place | a foolish fancy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | upon poets; different property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon poet=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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