Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 137

My career has been very interesting, but what's the use of that if nobody knows anything about it?

Who acts: career, nobody · What happens: be, know · To what, where: use, anything

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: who acts (career, nobody), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 career	nmod:poss
2	career	career	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 interesting	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 interesting	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 interesting	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 interesting	advmod
6	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 use	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 use	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 use	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 use	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 use	det
12	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 interesting	advcl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 that	case
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 use	nmod
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 knows	mark
16	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 knows	nsubj
17	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 use	advcl
18	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 knows	obj
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 anything	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 interesting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	My career		interesting property	tree rules
2	is a	present		the use	of that	tree rules
3	know a condition, not said to happen	present	nobody	anything	about career	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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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