Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 59

Her father dwelt at a few hours' distance from Grindelwald; he was a carver in wood, and gained so much by it that he had plenty to live upon.

Who acts: father · What happens: dwell, be, gain, have, live · To what, where: carver, wood, plenty

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dwelt	nsubj
3	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	9 distance	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hours	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hours	amod
7	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 distance	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 hours	case
9	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dwelt	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 Grindelwald	case
11	Grindelwald	Grindelwald	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 distance	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 carver	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 carver	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 carver	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 carver	det
16	carver	carver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dwelt	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 wood	case
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 carver	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gained	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gained	cc
21	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dwelt	parataxis
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADV	_	21 gained	advmod
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gained	obl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 had	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gained	advcl
29	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 live	mark
31	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 plenty	acl
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 live	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dwelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dwell	past	mother's father			at a few hours's distance from Grindelwald	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at distance=Location
2	is a	past	father	a carver	wood		tree rules
3	gain	past				by wood	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	have	past	father	plenty			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
5	live	to-infinitive	father not said here	plenty not said here			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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