Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 3

His father had been at first only a cattle dealer, but always honest and industrious, so that he had made money, and his son, the merchant, had managed to increase his store.

Who acts: father · What happens: be, make, manage, increase · To what, where: cattle dealer, money, son, store

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dealer	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dealer	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 dealer	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 first	case
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 dealer	obl
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 dealer	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dealer	det
9	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dealer	compound
10	dealer	dealer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 honest	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 honest	cc
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 honest	advmod
14	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dealer	appos
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 industrious	cc
16	industrious	industrious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 honest	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
18	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 made	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 so	fixed
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 made	aux
22	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 honest	parataxis
23	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 managed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 managed	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 son	nmod:poss
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 managed	nsubj:pass
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 merchant	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 merchant	det
30	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 son	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 son	punct
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 managed	aux
33	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 dealer	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 increase	mark
35	increase	increase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 managed	xcomp
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 store	nmod:poss
37	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 increase	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 dealer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past · perfect	father's father	a cattle dealer	tree rules
2	make	past · perfect	father	money	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Product
3	manage	past · perfect · passive		father's son	tree rules
4	increase	to-infinitive		father's store	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer store=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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