Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 42

It seemed as if the whole art lay in the boy's fingers; and he wanted to be more than a drummer--he wanted to become musician to the town.

Who acts: It, whole art, art · What happens: seem, lie, want, be, become · To what, where: fingers, musician

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 (It, whole art, art), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 lay	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 lay	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 art	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 art	amod
7	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lay	nsubj
8	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 fingers	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fingers	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 boy	case
13	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lay	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 wanted	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wanted	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wanted	nsubj
17	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	20 more	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 more	cop
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 wanted	obj
21	than	than	ADP	_	23 drummer	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 drummer	det
23	drummer	drummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 more	obl
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 wanted	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wanted	nsubj
26	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wanted	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 become	mark
28	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wanted	xcomp
29	musician	musician	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 become	xcomp
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 town	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 town	det
32	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 musician	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	lie	past	the whole art		the boy's fingers		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in finger=Location
3	want	past	art				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is	to-infinitive				than a drummer; more property	tree rules
5	want	past	art				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	become not said to happen	to-infinitive	art not said here	musician to the town			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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