Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 68

The painter, who wanted to get to Paradise, had to go up a staircase which he had himself painted, but which no man could mount.

Who acts: painter, staircase, man · What happens: want, get, have, go up, paint, mount · To what, where: Paradise, staircase

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (painter, staircase, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 painter	det
2	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 painter	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Paradise	case
9	Paradise	Paradise	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 painter	punct
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 go	compound:prt
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 staircase	det
16	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obj
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 had	obj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 staircase	acl:relcl
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 had	obj
21	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 had	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 mount	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 mount	cc
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 mount	obj
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mount	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 mount	aux
28	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 go	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	want	past	the painter			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	the painter not said here		Paradise	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to paradise=Result
3	have	past	the painter			tree rules
4	go up	to-infinitive	the painter not said here	a staircase		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient staircase=Extent
5	have	past	painter	a staircase		tree rules
6	paint	participle	a staircase not said here			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	mount	could	no man			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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