Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, How It Was Prepared, sentence 2

One gains nothing by travelling--everything can be acquired here quite as easily; so I stayed at home.

Who acts: One, I · What happens: gain, travel, acquire, stay · To what, where: nothing, everything, home

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, How It Was Prepared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 gains	nsubj
2	gains	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 gains	obj
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 travelling	mark
5	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gains	advcl
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 acquired	punct
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 acquired	nsubj:pass
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 acquired	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 acquired	aux:pass
10	acquired	acquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 travelling	conj
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 acquired	advmod
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 easily	advmod
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 easily	advmod
14	easily	easily	ADV	_	10 acquired	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 stayed	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 stayed	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 stayed	nsubj
18	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gains	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 home	case
20	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stayed	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gain	present	One	nothing			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
2	travel	gerund	One not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	acquire	can · passive		everything	here	easily property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme
4	stay	past	I		home		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

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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