Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 4

He had been born too late--everything had been taken up before he came into the world, and everything had been written and told about.

Who acts: man · What happens: bear, take up, come, write, tell · To what, where: man, everything, world · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 born	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 born	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 born	aux:pass
4	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 late	advmod
6	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 born	xcomp
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 taken	punct
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 taken	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 taken	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 taken	aux:pass
11	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 born	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 taken	compound:prt
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 taken	advcl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 world	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 written	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 written	cc
21	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	24 written	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 written	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 written	aux:pass
24	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 born	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 told	cc
26	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 written	conj
27	about	about	ADV	_	26 told	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 born	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	past · perfect · passive		man		late property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	take up	past · perfect · passive		everything			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	come	past	man		the world		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location
4	write	past · perfect · passive		everything			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	participle				about property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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