Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 189

The glovemaker's boy had also become a great painter, as the picture proved; but the larger picture by its side was a still greater proof of his talent.

Who acts: boy, picture, larger picture · What happens: become, prove, be · To what, where: great painter, greater proof

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: who acts (boy, picture, larger picture), 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 glovemaker	det
2	glovemaker	glovemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 glovemaker	case
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 become	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 become	aux
6	also	also	ADV	_	7 become	advmod
7	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 painter	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 painter	amod
10	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 become	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 proved	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 proved	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 picture	det
14	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 proved	nsubj
15	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 become	parataxis
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 proof	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 proof	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 picture	det
19	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 picture	amod
20	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 proof	nsubj
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 side	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 side	nmod:poss
23	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 picture	nmod
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 proof	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 proof	det
26	still	still	ADV	_	27 greater	advmod
27	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 proof	amod
28	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 proved	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 talent	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 talent	nmod:poss
31	talent	talent	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 proof	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	past · perfect	the glovemaker's boy	a great painter		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	prove	past	the picture			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the larger picture by glovemaker's side	a greater proof	of boy's talent	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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