Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 29

We perceive, by these remarks, that he had already become a poet.

Who acts: We, grass · What happens: perceive, become · To what, where: poet

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, grass), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 perceive	nsubj
2	perceive	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 remarks	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 remarks	case
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 remarks	det
6	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 perceive	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 become	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 become	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 become	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 become	aux
11	already	already	ADV	_	12 become	advmod
12	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 perceive	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 poet	det
14	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 become	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 perceive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	present	We					by this remarks	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	become	past · perfect	grass	a poet					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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