Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 34
His career was to be good, and his future life enviable.
Who acts: career · What happens: be
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: who acts (career), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:8023): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | 2 career | nmod:poss |
| 2 | career | career | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 good | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 good | cop |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 was | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 life | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 life | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 10 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 life | amod |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | conj |
| 12 | enviable | enviable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 life | orphan |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | boy's career | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | boy's career not said here | good property | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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