Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 78

Poor Ambrosius Stub! he was a summer fool too, a poet fool; he came too early, before his time, and therefore he had to taste the sharp winds, and wander about as a guest from one noble landed proprietor to another, like a flower in a glass of water, a flower in rhymed verses!

Who acts: Stub, Poor Ambrosius Stub · What happens: be, come, have, taste, wander, land · To what, where: summer fool, sharp winds, proprietor, one noble

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 (Stub, Poor Ambrosius Stub), 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Stub	amod
2	Ambrosius	Ambrosius	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Stub	compound
3	Stub	stub	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 Stub	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fool	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fool	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fool	det
8	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fool	compound
9	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Stub	conj
10	too	too	ADV	_	9 fool	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fool	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fool	det
13	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fool	compound
14	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Stub	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	too	too	ADV	_	19 early	advmod
19	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 came	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 time	punct
21	before	before	ADP	_	23 time	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 time	nmod:poss
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
26	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	28 had	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 taste	mark
30	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 had	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 winds	det
32	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 winds	amod
33	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 taste	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 wander	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 wander	cc
36	wander	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
37	about	about	ADV	_	36 wander	advmod
38	as	as	ADP	_	40 guest	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 guest	det
40	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 wander	obl
41	from	from	ADP	_	43 noble	case
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 noble	nummod
43	noble	noble	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 landed	obl
44	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 wander	parataxis
45	proprietor	proprietor	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 landed	obj
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 another	case
47	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	44 landed	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 flower	punct
49	like	like	ADP	_	51 flower	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 flower	det
51	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 landed	obl
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 glass	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 glass	det
54	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 flower	nmod
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 water	case
56	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 glass	nmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 flower	punct
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 flower	det
59	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 flower	conj
60	in	in	ADP	_	62 verses	case
61	rhymed	rhyme	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	62 verses	amod
62	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 flower	nmod
63	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Stub	a summer fool				tree rules
2	come	past	Poor Ambrosius Stub and a summer fool and a poet fool			time	early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	Stub				therefore property	tree rules
4	taste	to-infinitive	Stub not said here	the sharp winds				vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme wind=Attribute
5	wander	present	Poor Ambrosius Stub and a summer fool and a poet fool not said here				as a guest; about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	land	past		proprietor	one noble		to another; like a flower in a glass of water and a flower in rhymed verses	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme proprietor=Destination
7	rhyme	participle						vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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