Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 91

A man gains a position, he becomes a citizen, has his own sign, his own house of call for his workmen: so I shall be a builder.

Who acts: man, I · What happens: gain, become, have, be, sign · To what, where: position, citizen, own sign, builder

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 (man, I), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gains	nsubj
3	gains	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 position	det
5	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gains	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 becomes	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 becomes	nsubj
8	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gains	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 citizen	det
10	citizen	citizen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 becomes	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 has	punct
12	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gains	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sign	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sign	amod
15	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 has	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 house	punct
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 house	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 house	amod
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sign	appos
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 call	case
21	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 house	nmod
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 workmen	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 workmen	nmod:poss
24	workmen	workman	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 call	nmod
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 builder	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	31 builder	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 builder	nsubj
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 builder	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 builder	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 builder	det
31	builder	builder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gains	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	gain	present	a man	a position	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Theme
2	become	present	man	a citizen	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	have	present	a man not said here	man's own sign	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Patient
4	is a	shall	I	a builder	tree rules
5	sign		man		nom sign «communication 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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