Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 32

"He is building up an immortality for himself," said one, "and he will certainly build his way into one of our first families."

Who acts: discourse · What happens: build up, say, build · To what, where: immortality, one, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (discourse), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 building	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 building	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 building	aux
4	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 building	compound:prt
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 immortality	det
7	immortality	immortality	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 building	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 building	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 building	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 building	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 build	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 build	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 build	aux
19	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	20 build	advmod
20	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 way	nmod:poss
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 build	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	24 one	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 build	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 families	case
26	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 families	nmod:poss
27	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 families	amod
28	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 one	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 build	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 build	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	build up in a quote	present · progressive	discourse	a immortality	for discourse	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer immortality=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past		one		tree rules
3	build in a quote	future	discourse	discourse's way	into one of our first families; certainly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent way=Material into one=Product

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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