Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 229

His own history was changed into that of Anthony till it became quite a story, and many stories might be made by others, so we will leave them to relate their own.

Who acts: history, others, we · What happens: change, become, make, leave, relate · To what, where: own history, that, story, many stories, visions, own

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 (history, others, we), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 history	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 history	amod
3	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 changed	aux:pass
5	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 changed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Anthony	case
9	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 that	nmod
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 became	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 became	nsubj
12	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 changed	advcl
13	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	15 story	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 story	det
15	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 became	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stories	amod
19	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 made	nsubj:pass
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 made	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 made	aux:pass
22	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 changed	parataxis
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 others	case
24	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 made	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 leave	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	29 leave	advmod
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 leave	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 leave	aux
29	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 changed	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 leave	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 relate	mark
32	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 leave	advcl
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 own	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 relate	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	change	past · passive		Anthony's own history	into that result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into that=Result
2	become	past	history	quite story		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	make	might · passive	others	many stories		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product
4	leave	future	we	visions = vision		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	relate	to-infinitive	we not said here	visions's own		vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=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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