Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 192

He had given up his certain appointment, and travelled for six months in foreign lands, and, on his return, had lived in great style, and got into terrible debt.

Who acts: wealth · What happens: give up, travel, live, get, return · To what, where: wealth, foreign lands, return, terrible debt

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wealth), 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	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 given	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 appointment	nmod:poss
6	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 appointment	amod
7	appointment	appointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 travelled	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 travelled	cc
10	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	parataxis
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 months	case
12	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 months	nummod
13	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 travelled	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 lands	case
15	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lands	amod
16	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 travelled	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lived	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lived	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 and	punct
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 return	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 return	nmod:poss
22	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lived	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 return	punct
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lived	aux
25	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 travelled	advcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 style	case
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 style	amod
28	style	style	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lived	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 got	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 got	cc
31	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 travelled	conj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 debt	case
33	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 debt	amod
34	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 got	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past · perfect · passive		wealth				tree rules
2	travel	past			foreign lands	month		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Trajectory
3	live	past · perfect			wealth's return		in great style	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in style=Location
4	get	past			terrible debt			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into debt=Destination
5	return		wealth					nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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