Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 136
But it is useless to look for sympathy in this world.
What happens: be, look · To what, where: world
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:570): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 useless | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 useless | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 useless | cop |
| 4 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 useless | csubj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 sympathy | case |
| 8 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 useless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | useless property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | this world | for sympathy | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for sympathy=Theme in world=Location |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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