Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 17

He was appointed "Bellringer to the World," and wrote every year a short dissertation on the owl, but by this means people did not become any wiser than they had been before.

Who acts: this, people · What happens: appoint, write, mean, not become, be · To what, where: many, short dissertation, owl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, people), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 appointed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 appointed	aux:pass
3	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Bellringer	punct
5	Bellringer	Bellringer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 appointed	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 World	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 World	det
8	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 appointed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 World	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 World	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wrote	cc
12	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 appointed	conj
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 year	det
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wrote	obl:unmarked
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 dissertation	det
16	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dissertation	amod
17	dissertation	dissertation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wrote	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 owl	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 owl	det
20	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wrote	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 means	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 means	cc
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 this	case
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 means	nsubj
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 appointed	parataxis
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 become	nsubj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 become	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 become	advmod
29	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 means	ccomp
30	any	any	ADV	_	31 wiser	advmod
31	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 become	xcomp
32	than	than	SCONJ	_	36 before	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 before	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 before	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 before	cop
36	before	before	ADV	_	31 wiser	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 appointed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appoint	past · passive		many			to the World; Bellringer obl	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme to world=Attribute
2	write	past		a short dissertation	the owl	year		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dissertation=Theme on owl=Destination
3	mean	present	this					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not become	past · do-support	people				wise property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	is	past · perfect	people				before property	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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