Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 1

There was once a sculptor, named Alfred, who having won the large gold medal and obtained a travelling scholarship, went to Italy, and then came back to his native land.

Who acts: Alfred, sculptor · What happens: name, have, be, obtain, travel, go · To what, where: sculptor, travelling scholarship, Italy, native land

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alfred, sculptor), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 won	cop
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sculptor	det
5	sculptor	sculptor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 won	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 named	punct
7	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sculptor	acl
8	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 named	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 having	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 having	nsubj
11	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 Alfred	acl:relcl
12	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 medal	det
14	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 medal	amod
15	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 medal	compound
16	medal	medal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 won	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 obtained	cc
18	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 won	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 scholarship	det
20	travelling	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 scholarship	amod
21	scholarship	scholarship	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 obtained	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 won	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 Italy	case
25	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 came	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 came	advmod
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 won	conj
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 land	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 land	nmod:poss
33	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 land	amod
34	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 won	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	participle		a sculptor not said here				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	have	gerund	Alfred					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	a sculptor				win property	tree rules
4	obtain	past	a sculptor not said here	a travelling scholarship				vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset scholarship=Theme
5	travel	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	go	past	a sculptor not said here		Italy			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to italy=Initial_Location
7	come back	past	a sculptor not said here		Italy's native land	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location

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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