The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 10

He may remark that Andersen wants to ‘point a moral,’ as well as to ‘adorn a tale; ‘ that he is trying to make fun of the follies of mankind, as they exist in civilised countries.

Who acts: student, Andersen, tales · What happens: remark, want, point, adorn, try, make · To what, where: moral, tale, fun, civilised countries · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (student, Andersen, tales), 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	3 remark	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 remark	aux
3	remark	remark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 wants	mark
5	Andersen	Andersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wants	nsubj
6	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 remark	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	9 point	mark
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 point	punct
9	point	point	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wants	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 moral	det
11	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 point	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 remark	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 remark	punct
14	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	19 adorn	advmod
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 as	fixed
16	as	as	ADP	_	14 as	fixed
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 adorn	case
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 adorn	punct
19	adorn	adorn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 remark	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tale	det
21	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 adorn	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 trying	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 trying	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 trying	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 trying	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 trying	aux
27	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 remark	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 make	mark
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 trying	xcomp
30	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 follies	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 follies	det
33	follies	folly	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fun	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 mankind	case
35	mankind	mankind	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 follies	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 exist	punct
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 exist	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 exist	nsubj
39	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 make	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 countries	case
41	civilised	civilise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 countries	amod
42	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 exist	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	remark speech: assert	may	student			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	present	Andersen			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	point not said to happen	to-infinitive	Andersen not said here	a moral		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moral=Patient
4	adorn	infinitive	student not said here	a tale		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tale=Destination
5	try	present · progressive	student			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	student not said here	fun of the follies of mankind		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product
7	exist	present	tales = tale		civilised countries	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location
8	civilise	participle				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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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