Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 39

This was an office of high dignity, but his birth and his acquirements entitled him to the honour.

Who acts: This, birth · What happens: be, entitle · To what, where: office, husband

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, birth), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 office	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 office	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 office	det
4	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 dignity	case
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dignity	amod
7	dignity	dignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 office	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 entitled	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 entitled	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 birth	nmod:poss
11	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 entitled	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 acquirements	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 acquirements	nmod:poss
14	acquirements	acquirement	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 birth	conj
15	entitled	entitle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 office	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 entitled	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 honour	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 honour	det
19	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 entitled	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 office	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	a office				of high dignity	tree rules
2	entitle	past	husband's birth and husband's acquirements	husband				to the honour	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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