Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 7

In those days he lived in the clerk's house, and was to have everything in the house--to be at free quarters, as the saying is; but he was still, so to speak, a fine young gentleman.

Who acts: Such, saying · What happens: live, have, be, speak · To what, where: house, everything, free quarters · Speech: someone speaks here

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, saying), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 days	det
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 clerk	det
8	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 house	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 clerk	case
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 have	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
14	to	to	PART	_	15 have	mark
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	parataxis
16	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 have	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 house	det
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 everything	nmod
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 quarters	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	25 quarters	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 quarters	cop
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 quarters	case
24	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 quarters	amod
25	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 is	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 is	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 saying	det
29	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 is	nsubj
30	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 have	conj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 speak	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 still	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 still	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 still	cop
35	still	still	ADV	_	39 speak	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 speak	punct
37	so	so	ADV	_	39 speak	advmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 speak	mark
39	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	parataxis
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 gentleman	punct
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 gentleman	det
42	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 gentleman	amod
43	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 gentleman	amod
44	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 speak	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Such		the clerk's house	day		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
2	have	past		everything	the house			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
3	is	to-infinitive			free quarters			tree rules
4	be	present	the saying					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	Such				still property	tree rules
6	speak speech: other	to-infinitive						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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