Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 49

Immediately 'the inner man' of each individual would be displayed before him, like a game of cards, in which he unerringly might read what the future of every person presented was to be.

Who acts: man · What happens: display, read, future, present, be · To what, where: inner man, person

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	Immediately	immediately	ADV	_	5 man	advmod
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	inner	inner	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 displayed	nsubj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 individual	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 individual	det
9	individual	individual	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	nmod
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 displayed	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 displayed	aux:pass
12	displayed	display	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 displayed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 game	punct
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 game	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 game	det
18	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 displayed	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 cards	case
20	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 game	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 read	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 read	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 read	nsubj
25	unerringly	unerringly	ADV	_	27 read	advmod
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 read	aux
27	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 displayed	parataxis
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 future	nsubj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 future	det
30	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 read	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 person	case
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 person	det
33	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 future	nmod
34	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 person	acl
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 be	cop
36	to	to	PART	_	37 be	mark
37	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 read	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 displayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	display	would · passive		the inner man of each individual	before boy	like a game of cards	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	read	might	man			unerringly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	future					of every person	tree rules
4	present	participle		every person not said here			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	man not said here			be 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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