Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 33
He had really become something great, although his name ended in "sen,"--for it was Thorwaldsen.
Who acts: boy, name, house · What happens: become, end, be, name · To what, where: sen
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 (boy, name, house), 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 | 4 become | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | aux |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 become | advmod |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 become | xcomp |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 something | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ended | punct |
| 8 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 11 ended | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ended | nsubj |
| 11 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sen | case |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 sen | punct |
| 14 | sen | sen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ended | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sen | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 sen | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 Thorwaldsen | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 Thorwaldsen | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 Thorwaldsen | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Thorwaldsen | cop |
| 21 | Thorwaldsen | Thorwaldsen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ended | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past · perfect | boy | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | end | past | boy's name | sen | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | past | house | for Thorwaldsen | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name | boy | nom name «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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