Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 139

He had to take his father's place, to give orders, to act with energy, to help, and, at last, to go out into the world and earn his bread.

Who acts: father · What happens: have, take, give, act, help, go out · To what, where: place, orders, world, bread

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 take	mark
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 place	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 father	case
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 give	mark
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
12	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 give	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 act	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	15 act	mark
15	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 give	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 energy	case
17	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 act	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 help	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 help	mark
20	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 act	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 last	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 last	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 last	punct
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 last	case
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
27	to	to	PART	_	28 go	mark
28	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
29	out	out	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 earn	cc
34	earn	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 go	conj
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 bread	nmod:poss
36	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 earn	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	father				tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive	father not said here	father's father's place			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
3	give	to-infinitive	father not said here	orders			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
4	act	to-infinitive	father not said here			with energy	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	help	to-infinitive					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	go out	to-infinitive			the world	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	earn	present		father's bread			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme

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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