Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 16

His uncle had also taught him the trade of a cooper; but he had no inclination for either; his delight was in chamois-hunting, which also brought him plenty of money.

Who acts: Rudy, delight · What happens: teach, have, be, bring, trade, delight · To what, where: uncle, Rudy, inclination, chamois hunting, cooper

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, delight), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 uncle	nmod:poss
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taught	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taught	aux
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 taught	advmod
5	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 taught	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trade	det
8	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taught	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 cooper	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cooper	det
11	cooper	cooper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trade	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taught	parataxis
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 inclination	det
17	inclination	inclination	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 either	case
19	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	17 inclination	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 hunting	punct
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 delight	nmod:poss
22	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hunting	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hunting	cop
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 hunting	case
25	chamois	chamois	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hunting	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 chamois	punct
27	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 brought	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 brought	obj
30	also	also	ADV	_	31 brought	advmod
31	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hunting	acl:relcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 brought	obj
33	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 brought	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 money	case
35	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 plenty	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 taught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		Rudy's uncle	Rudy			tree rules
2	have	past	Rudy	no inclination			for either	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inclination=Patient
3	is	past	Rudy's delight			chamois hunting		tree rules
4	bring	past		chamois hunting				tree rules
5	trade			a cooper				nom trade «act transitive»: of=patient
6	delight		Rudy					nom delight «feeling 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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