Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 86

He wished to be a poet, and he became one.

Who acts: nature · What happens: wish, be, 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 (nature), 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	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 poet	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 poet	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 poet	det
6	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wished	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 became	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 became	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 became	nsubj
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wished	conj
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 became	xcomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wish	past	nature		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a	to-infinitive	nature not said here	a poet	tree rules
3	become	past	nature		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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