Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 1

There was once a young man who was studying to be a poet.

Who acts: young man · What happens: be, study · To what, where: poet

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 studying	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 studying	aux
9	studying	study	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 man	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	13 poet	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 poet	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 poet	det
13	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 studying	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a young man		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	study	past · progressive	a young man				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	to-infinitive	a young man not said here	a poet			tree rules

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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