Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 104

The young one who had remained behind in the nest made himself as broad as he could, for he was the proprietor.

Who acts: young one, eldest · What happens: remain, make, be · To what, where: nest, eldest

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young one, eldest), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 remained	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 remained	aux
6	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 one	acl:relcl
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 nest	case
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 nest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nest	det
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remained	obl
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 made	obj
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 broad	advmod
14	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 made	xcomp
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 could	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 could	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 broad	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 proprietor	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	23 proprietor	case
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 proprietor	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 proprietor	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 proprietor	det
23	proprietor	proprietor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remain	past · perfect	the young one		the nest		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind nest=Location
2	make	past	the young one	eldest = eld		broad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product
3	is	past	eldest = eld			for the proprietor	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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