Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 91

He wanted to be a poet, and he was one; he now wished to be a merry chirping bird: but when he was metamorphosed into one, the former peculiarities ceased immediately.

Who acts: doubt, former peculiarities · What happens: want, be, wish, metamorphose, cease · To what, where: poet, one, merry chirping bird, doubt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt, former peculiarities), 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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 poet	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 poet	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 poet	det
6	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 one	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 one	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 one	cop
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 wanted	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 wished	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wished	nsubj
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 wished	advmod
15	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	21 bird	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 bird	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bird	det
19	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bird	amod
20	chirping	chirping	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bird	compound
21	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wished	ccomp
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 metamorphosed	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 metamorphosed	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 metamorphosed	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 metamorphosed	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 metamorphosed	aux:pass
27	metamorphosed	metamorphose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 wished	parataxis
28	into	into	ADP	_	29 one	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 metamorphosed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ceased	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 peculiarities	det
32	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 peculiarities	amod
33	peculiarities	peculiarity	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 ceased	nsubj
34	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 metamorphosed	conj
35	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	34 ceased	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	doubt				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	doubt not said here	a poet			tree rules
3	is a	past	doubt	one			tree rules
4	wish	past	doubt		now		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive		a merry chirping bird			tree rules
6	metamorphose	past · passive		doubt		into one result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into one=Result
7	cease	past	the former peculiarities			immediately property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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