Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 46

He said he was striving after truth, and was considered by his aunt "a model and an example."

Who acts: skin, aunt · What happens: say, strive, consider · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skin, aunt), 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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 striving	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 striving	aux
5	striving	strive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 truth	case
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 striving	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 considered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 considered	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 considered	aux:pass
11	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	conj
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 aunt	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 aunt	nmod:poss
14	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 considered	obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 model	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 model	det
17	model	model	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 aunt	appos
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 example	cc
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 example	det
20	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 aunt	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	skin		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	strive	past · progressive	skin	after truth	tree rules
3	consider	past · passive	skin's aunt and a example		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=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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