Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 32
He was a good man, but still he had a very strange prejudice,--he could not bear the sight of a sexton.
Who acts: Claus · What happens: be, have, not bear, sight · To what, where: good man, strange prejudice, sight, sexton
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Claus), 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 | 5 man | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 had | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 prejudice | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 strange | advmod |
| 13 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 prejudice | amod |
| 14 | prejudice | prejudice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bear | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 bear | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bear | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 bear | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 bear | advmod |
| 20 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 man | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sight | det |
| 22 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bear | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 sexton | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 sexton | det |
| 25 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sight | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Claus | a good man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Claus | a strange prejudice | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prejudice=Patient | |||
| 3 | not bear | could | Claus | the sight of a sexton | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sight | a sexton | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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