Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 36
He was diligent and industrious, but employment did him no good.
Who acts: king, employment · What happens: be, do · To what, where: king
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, employment), 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 | 3 diligent | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 diligent | cop |
| 3 | diligent | diligent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 industrious | cc |
| 5 | industrious | industrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 diligent | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 did | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 did | cc |
| 8 | employment | employment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 diligent | parataxis |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 did | obj |
| 11 | no | no | ADV | _ | 12 good | advmod |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 did | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 diligent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | king | diligent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | king not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | do | past | employment | king | good property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
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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