Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 6

And yet my father was not a skin-dresser nor an executioner; on the contrary, his employment placed him at the head of the grandest people of the town, and it was his place by right.

Who acts: father, skin dresser, town, temper · What happens: not be, place, be, employ · To what, where: skin dresser, temper, head, place

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, skin dresser, town, temper), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 dresser	cc
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	10 dresser	advmod
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dresser	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dresser	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 dresser	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dresser	det
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dresser	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 skin	punct
10	dresser	dresser	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 placed	nsubj
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	13 executioner	cc
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 executioner	det
13	executioner	executioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dresser	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 contrary	punct
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 contrary	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 contrary	det
17	contrary	contrary	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 placed	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 employment	punct
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 employment	nmod:poss
20	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 contrary	conj
21	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 placed	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 head	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 head	det
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 placed	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 people	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 people	det
28	grandest	grand	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 people	amod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 head	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 town	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 town	det
32	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 people	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 place	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 place	cc
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 place	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 place	cop
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 place	nmod:poss
38	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 placed	obl
39	by	by	ADP	_	40 right	case
40	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 place	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	my father	a skin dresser nor a executioner		yet		tree rules
2	place	past	a skin dresser nor a executioner	temper	the head of the grandest people of the town			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme at head=Destination
3	is a	past	town	temper's place			by right	tree rules
4	employ		temper					nom employment «state transitive»: poss=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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