Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 165

He did not gain one in the war, but it is still more difficult to gain one in this way.

Who acts: father · What happens: not gain, be, gain · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 gain	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gain	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gain	advmod
4	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 gain	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 war	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 war	det
8	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 difficult	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 difficult	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 difficult	expl
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 difficult	cop
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 difficult	advmod
15	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gain	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 gain	mark
17	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 difficult	csubj
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 gain	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 way	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 one	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not gain	past · do-support	father	one	in the war	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient one=Extent in war=Attribute
2	is	present	father not said here		difficult property	tree rules
3	gain	to-infinitive		one	in this way	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient one=Extent in way=Attribute

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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