Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 34

But the transition from a character of every-day life to one of a more gifted nature is a great transition; and so the clerk became aware of the change after a time. "

Who acts: transition, clerk · What happens: be, become · To what, where: great transition

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 (transition, clerk), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	22 transition	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 transition	det
3	transition	transition	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 transition	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 character	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 character	det
6	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 transition	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 life	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 every	punct
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 life	compound
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 character	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 one	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 life	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 nature	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 nature	det
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 gifted	advmod
17	gifted	gifted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nature	amod
18	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 one	nmod
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 transition	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 transition	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 transition	amod
22	transition	transition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 became	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 became	cc
25	so	so	ADV	_	28 became	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 clerk	det
27	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 became	nsubj
28	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 transition	parataxis
29	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 became	xcomp
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 change	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 change	det
32	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 aware	obl
33	after	after	ADP	_	35 time	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 time	det
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 became	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 transition	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 transition	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the transition from a character of day life to one of a gifted nature	a great transition					tree rules
2	become	past	the clerk				time	aware property	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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