Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 14

Some are all for pomp and parade, others have a great deal to do to maintain their own importance, while the rest might be spared without much loss to society.

Who acts: Some, others · What happens: be, have, do, maintain, spare · To what, where: great deal, own importance, rest

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, others), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 pomp	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pomp	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 pomp	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 pomp	case
5	pomp	pomp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 parade	cc
7	parade	parade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pomp	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pomp	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 deal	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 deal	amod
13	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 deal	acl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 maintain	mark
17	maintain	maintain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 do	advcl
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 importance	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 importance	amod
20	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 maintain	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 spared	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 spared	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rest	det
24	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spared	nsubj:pass
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 spared	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 spared	aux:pass
27	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 have	conj
28	without	without	ADP	_	30 loss	case
29	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 loss	amod
30	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spared	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 society	case
32	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 loss	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pomp	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Some		for pomp and parade; all property	tree rules
2	have	present	others	a great deal		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient
3	do	to-infinitive	others not said here	a great deal not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	maintain	to-infinitive	others not said here	others's own importance		vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent importance=Theme
5	spare	might · passive		the rest	without much loss to society	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset

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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