Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 1

There was once a merchant who was so rich that he could have paved the whole street with gold, and would even then have had enough for a small alley.

Who acts: merchant · What happens: be, pave, have · To what, where: whole street

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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	5 merchant	det
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 rich	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rich	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 rich	advmod
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 merchant	acl:relcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 paved	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 paved	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 paved	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 paved	aux
14	paved	pave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 rich	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 street	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 street	amod
17	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 paved	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 gold	case
19	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 street	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 had	cc
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 had	aux
23	even	even	ADV	_	24 then	advmod
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 had	advmod
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 had	aux
26	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 was	parataxis
27	enough	enough	ADV	_	26 had	advmod
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 alley	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 alley	det
30	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 alley	amod
31	alley	alley	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a merchant		there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	a merchant				rich property	tree rules
3	pave	could · perfect	merchant	the whole street			with gold	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent street=Destination with gold=Theme
4	have	would · perfect				then	for a small alley; enough property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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