Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 8

If he had possessed a slender well-shaped figure, he might have been the first tragedian on any stage; the heroic, the great, filled his soul; and yet he had to become a Pulcinella.

Who acts: public · What happens: possess, shape, be, fill, have, become · To what, where: public, first tragedian, stage, soul, Pulcinella

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (public), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 possessed	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 possessed	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 possessed	aux
4	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 tragedian	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 figure	det
6	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 figure	amod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 shaped	advmod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 well	punct
9	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 figure	amod
10	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 possessed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 possessed	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tragedian	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 tragedian	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 tragedian	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 tragedian	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tragedian	det
17	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 tragedian	amod
18	tragedian	tragedian	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 stage	case
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 stage	det
21	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tragedian	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 heroic	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 heroic	det
24	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tragedian	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 great	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 great	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 heroic	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 filled	punct
29	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 heroic	parataxis
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 soul	nmod:poss
31	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 filled	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 had	cc
34	yet	yet	ADV	_	36 had	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 filled	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 become	mark
38	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 had	xcomp
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 Pulcinella	det
40	Pulcinella	Pulcinella	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 become	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 tragedian	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		public				tree rules
2	shape	participle					well property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	is a	might · perfect	public	the first tragedian	any stage			tree rules
4	be		public not said here					tree rules
5	fill	past		public's soul				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent soul=Patient
6	have	past	public			yet		tree rules
7	become	to-infinitive	public not said here	a Pulcinella				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient pulcinella=Result

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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