Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 55

Now he was rich, had fine clothes, and many friends, who all declared he was a fine fellow and a real gentleman, and all this gratified him exceedingly.

Who acts: soldier, fine clothes, this · What happens: be, have, declare, gratify · To what, where: fine clothes, fine fellow, soldier · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, fine clothes, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:13095): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 rich	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rich	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	cop
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	conj
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clothes	amod
8	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 friends	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 friends	cc
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 friends	amod
12	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 clothes	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 declared	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 declared	nsubj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 who	det
16	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 clothes	acl:relcl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fellow	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fellow	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fellow	det
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fellow	amod
21	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 declared	ccomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 gentleman	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 gentleman	det
24	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 gentleman	amod
25	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fellow	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gratified	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gratified	cc
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 this	det:predet
29	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 gratified	nsubj
30	gratified	gratify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gratified	obj
32	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	30 gratified	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rich	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	soldier		now	rich property	tree rules
2	have	past	soldier not said here	fine clothes and many friends			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
3	declare speech: other	past	fine clothes and many friends				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	soldier	a fine fellow and a real gentleman			tree rules
5	gratify	past	this	soldier		exceedingly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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