Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 95

In a large party it is very disagreeable to find a button giving way, with no studs at hand to fall back upon; but it is worse still in a large company to be conscious that your wife and mother-in-law are talking nonsense, and that you cannot depend upon yourself to produce a little ready wit to carry off the stupidity of the whole affair.

Who acts: it, button, casket, wife, you · What happens: be, find, give, fall back, talk, not depend · To what, where: large party, button, way, large company, nonsense, little ready wit

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 (it, button, casket, wife), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 party	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 party	det
3	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 party	amod
4	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 disagreeable	obl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 disagreeable	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 disagreeable	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 disagreeable	advmod
8	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 find	mark
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 disagreeable	csubj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 button	det
12	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 find	obj
13	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 button	acl
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 giving	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 studs	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 studs	case
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 studs	det
18	studs	stud	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 giving	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 hand	case
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 studs	nmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 fall	mark
22	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 giving	advcl
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 fall	advmod
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 fall	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 worse	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 worse	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 worse	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 worse	cop
29	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 disagreeable	conj
30	still	still	ADV	_	34 company	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 company	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 company	det
33	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 company	amod
34	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 worse	obl
35	to	to	PART	_	37 conscious	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 conscious	cop
37	conscious	conscious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 company	amod
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 talking	mark
39	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 wife	nmod:poss
40	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 talking	nsubj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 mother	cc
42	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 wife	conj
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 law	punct
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 law	case
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 in	punct
46	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 wife	conj
47	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 talking	aux
48	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 conscious	advcl
49	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 talking	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 depend	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 depend	cc
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 depend	mark
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	56 depend	nsubj
54	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 depend	aux
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 depend	advmod
56	depend	depend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 disagreeable	conj
57	upon	upon	ADP	_	58 yourself	case
58	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	56 depend	obl
59	to	to	PART	_	60 produce	mark
60	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 depend	advcl
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 wit	det
62	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 wit	amod
63	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 wit	amod
64	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 produce	obj
65	to	to	PART	_	66 carry	mark
66	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 wit	acl
67	off	off	ADP	_	66 carry	compound:prt
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 stupidity	det
69	stupidity	stupidity	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 carry	obj
70	of	of	ADP	_	73 affair	case
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 affair	det
72	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	73 affair	amod
73	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 stupidity	nmod
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 disagreeable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		a large party	disagreeable property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive		a button			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=Topic
3	give	gerund	a button not said here	way		with no studs at hand	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
4	fall back	to-infinitive	a button not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	casket		a large company	bad property	tree rules
6	is	to-infinitive				conscious property	tree rules
7	talk	present · progressive	your wife and mother and law	nonsense			vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient
8	not depend	can	you			upon yourself	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
9	produce	to-infinitive	you not said here	a little ready wit			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Result
10	carry off	to-infinitive	you not said here	the stupidity of the whole affair			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stupidity=Theme

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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