Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 14

And what became of the little lad?--the poor boy of the humble town of Marbach?

What happens: become

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 became	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 lad	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lad	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lad	amod
7	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 lad	punct
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 boy	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boy	amod
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lad	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 town	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 town	det
15	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 town	amod
16	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boy	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Marbach	case
18	Marbach	Marbach	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 town	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past						of the little lad and the poor boy of the humble town of Marbach	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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