Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 6
He had studied, too, and had been assistant teacher and deputy clerk; but of what service was all that to him?
Who acts: Such, service · What happens: study, be · To what, where: assistant teacher, that
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such, service), 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 | 3 studied | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 studied | aux |
| 3 | studied | study | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 too | punct |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 studied | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 teacher | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 teacher | cc |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 teacher | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 teacher | cop |
| 10 | assistant | assistant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 teacher | amod |
| 11 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 studied | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 clerk | cc |
| 13 | deputy | deputy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 clerk | amod |
| 14 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 teacher | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 what | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 what | cc |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 what | case |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 studied | obl |
| 19 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 that | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 that | cop |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 that | det:predet |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 what | nsubj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 what | nmod |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 studied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | study | past · perfect | Such | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | assistant teacher and deputy clerk | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | service | that | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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