Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 64

I inquired for the Polytechnic professor; but he had disappeared like the Greek and Roman gods; from that time I have been the happiest man in the world.

Who acts: I, professor · What happens: inquire, disappear, be · To what, where: happiest man, world

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, professor), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 inquired	nsubj
2	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 professor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 professor	det
5	Polytechnic	Polytechnic	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 professor	compound
6	professor	professor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 inquired	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 disappeared	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 disappeared	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 disappeared	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 disappeared	aux
11	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 inquired	conj
12	like	like	ADP	_	17 gods	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gods	det
14	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gods	amod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Roman	cc
16	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Greek	conj
17	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 disappeared	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 man	punct
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 time	case
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 time	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 man	obl
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 man	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 man	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 man	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 man	det
26	happiest	happy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 inquired	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 world	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 world	det
30	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 man	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inquire speech: other	past	I				for the Polytechnic professor	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	disappear	past · perfect	professor				like the Greek gods	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present · perfect	I	the happiest man	the world	time		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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