Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 73

"I suppose it is only on our account that you perform this common-place work yourself, instead of leaving it to your servant to do all that sticking together."

Who acts: Thorwalsden, clay, you, that · What happens: suppose, be, perform, leave, do, stick together · To what, where: account, clay · 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 (Thorwalsden, clay, you, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 suppose	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 suppose	nsubj
3	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 account	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 account	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 account	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 account	case
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 account	nmod:poss
9	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 suppose	ccomp
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 perform	obj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 perform	nsubj
12	perform	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 account	acl:relcl
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 work	det
14	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 place	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 common	punct
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 work	compound
17	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perform	obj
18	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 perform	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 leaving	punct
20	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 leaving	mark
21	of	of	ADP	_	20 instead	fixed
22	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 suppose	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 leaving	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 servant	case
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 servant	nmod:poss
26	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leaving	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 do	mark
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 leaving	xcomp
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 sticking	det:predet
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 sticking	nsubj
31	sticking	stick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 do	advcl
32	together	together	ADV	_	31 sticking	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 suppose	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suppose in a quote	present	Thorwalsden				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	clay		our account		tree rules
3	perform in a quote	present	you	our account		yourself obl	tree rules
4	leave in a quote	gerund	Thorwalsden not said here	clay		to your servant	tree rules
5	do in a quote	to-infinitive	clay not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	stick together in a quote	gerund	that			together property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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