Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 58
"Esteem no man happy until he is in his grave," were the words of Solon.
Who acts: spirit, Esteem · What happens: be · To what, where: man, grave, words
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirit, Esteem), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Esteem | punct |
| 2 | Esteem | esteem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 words | nsubj |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Esteem | appos |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 grave | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 grave | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 grave | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 grave | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 grave | nmod:poss |
| 11 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 man | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Esteem | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Esteem | punct |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 words | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 words | det |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Solon | case |
| 18 | Solon | Solon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 words | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 words | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | spirit | no man not said here | spirit's grave | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Esteem | the words | of Solon | 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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