Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 141

He had gained his position, he had made himself something, and at last he died, which was "something" too.

Who acts: Hurrah · What happens: gain, make, die, be · To what, where: position, Hurrah, last, something

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hurrah), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gained	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gained	aux
3	gained	gain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 position	nmod:poss
5	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gained	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	aux
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 gained	parataxis
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 made	obj
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 made	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 died	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 died	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 died	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 died	nsubj
17	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gained	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 something	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 something	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 something	cop
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 something	punct
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 died	obl
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 something	punct
24	too	too	ADV	_	17 died	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	gain	past · perfect	Hurrah	Hurrah's position		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Theme
2	make	past · perfect	Hurrah	Hurrah		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary something=Product
3	die	past	Hurrah		last	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is a in a quote	past		something		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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