Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 50

The botanical professor wrote a long treatise about the heavenly plant, and for this he was loaded with gold, which improved the position of himself and his family.

Who acts: botanical professor, gold · What happens: write, load, improve · To what, where: long treatise, this, position

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (botanical professor, gold), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 professor	det
2	botanical	botanical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 professor	amod
3	professor	professor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrote	nsubj
4	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 treatise	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 treatise	amod
7	treatise	treatise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrote	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	11 plant	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plant	det
10	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plant	amod
11	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 treatise	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 loaded	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 loaded	cc
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 this	case
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 loaded	nsubj:pass
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 loaded	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 loaded	aux:pass
18	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wrote	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 gold	case
20	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 loaded	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 improved	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 improved	nsubj
23	improved	improve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 gold	acl:relcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 position	det
25	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 improved	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 himself	case
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 position	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 family	cc
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 family	nmod:poss
30	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 himself	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	write	past	the botanical professor	a long treatise	about the heavenly plant	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent treatise=Recipient about plant=Topic
2	load	past · passive		this	with gold	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with gold=Theme
3	improve	past	gold	the position of professor		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent position=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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