Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 187

The painter was said to be a young Florentine, who had been found in the streets, when a child, by an old glovemaker, who had brought him up.

What happens: say, be, find, bring up · To what, where: painter, young Florentine, streets, old glovemaker · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 painter	det
2	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux:pass
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	9 Florentine	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 Florentine	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Florentine	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Florentine	amod
9	Florentine	Florentine	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 found	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 found	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 found	aux:pass
14	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 Florentine	acl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 streets	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 streets	det
17	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 found	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 child	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 child	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 child	det
21	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 streets	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 glovemaker	punct
23	by	by	ADP	_	26 glovemaker	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 glovemaker	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 glovemaker	amod
26	glovemaker	glovemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 streets	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 brought	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 brought	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 brought	aux
30	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 glovemaker	acl:relcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 brought	obj
32	up	up	ADP	_	30 brought	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · passive	the painter		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	is a	to-infinitive	a young Florentine		tree rules
3	find	past · perfect · passive	a young Florentine	the streets and a child and a old glovemaker	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	bring up	past · perfect · passive	a old glovemaker		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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