Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 120

He had certainly been in grand society; but he had been obliged to creep under a room, and to make himself small enough to wear the uniform of a tin soldier.

Who acts: Hjalmar · What happens: have, be, oblige, creep, make, wear · To what, where: grand society, Hjalmar, room, uniform

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hjalmar), 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	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	7 society	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 society	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 society	case
6	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 society	amod
7	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 obliged	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 obliged	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 obliged	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 obliged	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 obliged	aux:pass
13	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 creep	mark
15	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 obliged	xcomp
16	under	under	ADP	_	18 room	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 room	det
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 creep	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 make	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 make	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 make	mark
22	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 make	obj
24	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 make	xcomp
25	enough	enough	ADV	_	24 small	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 wear	mark
27	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 small	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 uniform	det
29	uniform	uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wear	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 soldier	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 soldier	det
32	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 soldier	compound
33	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 uniform	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Hjalmar				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle			grand society	certainly property	tree rules
3	oblige	past · perfect · passive		Hjalmar			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	creep	to-infinitive			a room		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under room=Trajectory
5	make	to-infinitive		Hjalmar		small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product
6	wear	to-infinitive		the uniform of a tin soldier			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent uniform=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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