Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 107

In the sight of God, they may occupy a higher place than many of the rich; but here upon earth we must beware of entering upon a false track, lest we are overturned in our plans, like a carriage that travels by a dangerous road.

Who acts: looks, we, carriage, our · What happens: occupy, beware, enter, overturn, travel, sight · To what, where: higher place, sight, we, plans, God

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (looks, we, carriage, our), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 sight	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sight	det
3	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 occupy	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 God	case
5	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sight	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sight	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 occupy	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 occupy	aux
9	occupy	occupy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 place	det
11	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 place	amod
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 occupy	obj
13	than	than	ADP	_	14 many	case
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 place	amod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 rich	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rich	det
17	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 many	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 beware	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 here	cc
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 beware	advmod
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 earth	case
22	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 beware	obl
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 beware	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 beware	aux
25	beware	beware	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 occupy	conj
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 entering	mark
27	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 beware	advcl
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 track	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 track	det
30	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 track	amod
31	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 entering	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 overturned	punct
33	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	36 overturned	mark
34	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 overturned	nsubj:pass
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 overturned	aux:pass
36	overturned	overturn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 beware	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 plans	case
38	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 plans	nmod:poss
39	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 overturned	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 carriage	punct
41	like	like	ADP	_	43 carriage	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 carriage	det
43	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 overturned	obl
44	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 travels	nsubj
45	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 carriage	acl:relcl
46	by	by	ADP	_	49 road	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 road	det
48	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 road	amod
49	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 travels	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 occupy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	occupy	may	looks = look	a higher place	the sight of God		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus place=Experiencer
2	beware	must	we		here	upon earth	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	enter	gerund	we not said here			upon a false track	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	overturn	present · passive		we	our plans	like a carriage	tree rules
5	travel	present	a carriage			by a dangerous road	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by road=Trajectory
6	sight			God			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
7	plan		our				nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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