Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 35
But that is not a very lucrative office, and therefore he praised fasting.
Who acts: that, man · What happens: not be, praise, fast · To what, where: lucrative office
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 office | cc |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 office | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 office | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 office | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 office | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 lucrative | advmod |
| 7 | lucrative | lucrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 office | amod |
| 8 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 praised | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 praised | cc |
| 11 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 13 praised | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 praised | nsubj |
| 13 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 office | conj |
| 14 | fasting | fast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 praised | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 office | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | that | a lucrative office | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | praise | past | man | therefore property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | fast | gerund | man not said here | tree rules |
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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