Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 177

A child of the world became a servant of the church--the young artist renounced the world, and retired into the cloister.

Who acts: child, young artist · What happens: become, renounce, retire · To what, where: servant, world, cloister

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, young artist), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 world	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 child	nmod
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 servant	det
8	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 church	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 church	det
11	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 servant	nmod
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 renounced	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 artist	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 artist	amod
15	artist	artist	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 renounced	nsubj
16	renounced	renounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 renounced	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 retired	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 retired	cc
21	retired	retire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 renounced	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 cloister	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cloister	det
24	cloister	cloister	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 retired	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	become	past	a child of the world	a servant of the church		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	renounce	past	the young artist	the world		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Source
3	retire	participle	the young artist not said here		the cloister	vn resign-10.11-1 «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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