Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 11

Then the branch became proud, which was very much like human nature.

Who acts: branch · What happens: become, be

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (branch), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 became	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 branch	det
3	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 became	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nature	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 nature	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 nature	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADV	_	13 nature	advmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 nature	case
12	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 nature	amod
13	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proud	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the branch				then	proud property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	is	past						like human nature	tree rules

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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