Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 136

Anthony's father lost all his property, and, from being known as one of the richest merchants, he became very poor.

Who acts: father · What happens: lose, know, become · To what, where: property

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 father	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Anthony	case
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 property	det:predet
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 property	nmod:poss
7	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 known	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 known	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 known	punct
11	from	from	SCONJ	_	13 known	mark
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 known	aux:pass
13	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lost	conj
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 known	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 merchants	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 merchants	det
18	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 merchants	amod
19	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 became	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 became	nsubj
22	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	conj
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 poor	advmod
24	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 became	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	past	Anthony's father	father's property		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Eventuality
2	know	gerund · passive	Anthony's father not said here		as one of the richest merchants	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as one=Attribute
3	become	past	father		poor property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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