Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 89

The eel-breeder of Fjaltring had an uncle at Old Skjagen, who was a fisherman, but also a prosperous merchant with ships upon the sea; he was said to be a good old man, and it would not be a bad thing to enter his service.

Who acts: eel breeder, uncle, ship, breeder · What happens: have, be, say, not be, enter, service · To what, where: uncle, Old Skjagen, fisherman, breeder, good old man, bad thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, 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 (eel breeder, uncle, ship, breeder), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 breeder	det
2	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 breeder	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 eel	punct
4	breeder	breeder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Fjaltring	case
6	Fjaltring	Fjaltring	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 breeder	nmod
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 uncle	det
9	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 Skjagen	case
11	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Skjagen	amod
12	Skjagen	Skjagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 uncle	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fisherman	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 fisherman	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fisherman	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fisherman	det
17	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 uncle	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 merchant	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 merchant	cc
20	also	also	ADV	_	23 merchant	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 merchant	det
22	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 merchant	amod
23	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 ships	case
25	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 merchant	nmod
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 sea	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sea	det
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ships	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 said	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 said	aux:pass
32	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 had	parataxis
33	to	to	PART	_	38 man	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 man	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 man	det
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 man	amod
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 man	amod
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 said	ccomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 thing	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 thing	cc
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 thing	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 thing	aux
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 thing	advmod
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 thing	cop
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 thing	det
46	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 thing	amod
47	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	parataxis
48	to	to	PART	_	49 enter	mark
49	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 thing	acl
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 service	nmod:poss
51	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 enter	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the eel breeder of Fjaltring	a uncle and a fisherman	Old Skjagen	a prosperous merchant with ships upon the sea obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uncle=Patient
2	is a	past	a uncle and a fisherman	a fisherman			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past · passive		breeder			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
4	is a	to-infinitive		a good old man			tree rules
5	not is a	would	ship	a bad thing			tree rules
6	enter	to-infinitive	the eel breeder of Fjaltring not said here	breeder's service			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination
7	service		breeder				nom service «act 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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