Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 44

He had a kind of idea that he might be made into cambric if he were rightly treated.

Who acts: Nettle · What happens: have, make, treat · To what, where: kind, Nettle, cambric

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nettle), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 idea	case
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 made	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 made	aux:pass
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	xcomp
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 cambric	case
13	cambric	cambric	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 treated	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 treated	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 treated	aux:pass
17	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	18 treated	advmod
18	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 made	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Nettle	a kind of idea			tree rules
2	make	might · passive		Nettle	cambric		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into cambric=Product
3	treat a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		Nettle		rightly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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