Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 43

"I'll be a soldier," said Peter; for he was still quite a little lad, and it seemed to him the finest thing in the world to carry a gun, and to be able to march one, two--one, two, and to wear a uniform and a sword.

Who acts: soldier, it · What happens: be, say, seem, carry, march, wear · To what, where: soldier, finest thing, world, gun, one, uniform · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (soldier, it), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 soldier	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 soldier	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 soldier	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 soldier	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 soldier	det
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 soldier	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 soldier	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 lad	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	19 lad	case
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lad	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lad	cop
15	still	still	ADV	_	19 lad	advmod
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 lad	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lad	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lad	amod
19	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seemed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 seemed	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seemed	nsubj
23	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seemed	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 thing	det
27	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 thing	amod
28	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seemed	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 world	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 thing	nmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 carry	mark
33	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 seemed	advcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 gun	det
35	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 carry	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 able	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 able	cc
38	to	to	PART	_	40 able	mark
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 able	cop
40	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
41	to	to	PART	_	42 march	mark
42	march	march	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 able	xcomp
43	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 march	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 two	punct
45	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 one	conj
46	--	--	PUNCT	_	47 one	punct
47	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 two	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 two	punct
49	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 one	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 wear	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 wear	cc
52	to	to	PART	_	53 wear	mark
53	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 march	conj
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 uniform	det
55	uniform	uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 wear	obj
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 sword	cc
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 sword	det
58	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 uniform	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	future	a soldier = soldier	a soldier					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a soldier						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	soldier				still	for a little lad	tree rules
4	seem	past	it	the finest thing	soldier	the world			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Attribute
5	carry	to-infinitive		a gun					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme
6	is	to-infinitive						able property	tree rules
7	march	to-infinitive		one					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Trajectory
8	wear	to-infinitive		a uniform and a sword					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent uniform=Theme

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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