Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 104

"There is no real pleasure in travelling," said mamma; "to tell the truth, it's very wearisome; I beg pardon for saying so.

Who acts: real pleasure, mamma, pleasure · What happens: be, say, tell, beg · To what, where: truth, pardon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (real pleasure, mamma, pleasure), 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	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 pleasure	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pleasure	amod
6	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 travelling	case
8	travelling	travelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pleasure	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 tell	mark
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 truth	det
18	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wearisome	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wearisome	nsubj
21	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 wearisome	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 wearisome	advmod
23	wearisome	wearisome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tell	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 beg	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 beg	nsubj
26	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	advcl
27	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 beg	obj
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 saying	mark
29	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 beg	advcl
30	so	so	ADV	_	29 saying	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	no real pleasure in travelling		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	mamma				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	mamma not said here	the truth			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient
4	is in a quote	present	pleasure			wearisome property	tree rules
5	beg speech: request in a quote	present	mamma	pardon			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient
6	say speech: assert in a quote	gerund	mamma not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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