Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 11

He is like one of the family, faithful and grumpy; but the latter is my grandchildren's fault, for they have teased him; they play at wedding, and want to give him the part of the bridesmaid, and that's too much for him, poor old fellow."

Who acts: appearance, latter, grandchildren, that · What happens: be, tease, play, want, give · To what, where: one fault, grandchildren, wedding, part, appearance

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (appearance, latter, grandchildren, that), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 one	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 one	cop
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 one	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 fault	nummod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 family	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 family	det
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 one	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 faithful	punct
9	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 family	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grumpy	cc
11	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 faithful	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 fault	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 fault	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 latter	det
15	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fault	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fault	cop
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fault	nmod:poss
18	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fault	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 grandchildren	case
20	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 teased	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 teased	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 teased	nsubj:pass
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 teased	aux
25	teased	tease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 fault	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 teased	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 play	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 play	nsubj
29	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fault	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 wedding	case
31	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 play	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 want	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 want	cc
34	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 play	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 give	mark
36	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 want	xcomp
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 give	iobj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 part	det
39	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 give	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 bridesmaid	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 bridesmaid	det
42	bridesmaid	bridesmaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 part	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 much	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 much	cc
45	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 much	nsubj
46	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 much	cop
47	too	too	ADV	_	48 much	advmod
48	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 play	conj
49	for	for	ADP	_	50 him	case
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 much	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 fellow	punct
52	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 fellow	amod
53	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 fellow	amod
54	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 much	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 fault	punct
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 fault	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	appearance				like one; of the family	tree rules
2	is a	present	the latter	my one fault				tree rules
3	tease	present · perfect · passive		grandchildren = grandchild				tree rules
4	play	present	grandchildren = grandchild			wedding		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	want	present	grandchildren = grandchild not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	grandchildren = grandchild not said here	the part of the bridesmaid	appearance			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient part=Theme
7	is	present	that				for appearance; much 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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