Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 126
His mental powers here below were not strong enough to reach the treasures lying beyond this life, and which his destiny ordained he should obtain.
Who acts: mental powers, treasures, destiny, Care · What happens: not be, reach, lie, ordain, obtain · To what, where: treasures, life
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mental powers, treasures, destiny, Care), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 powers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 powers | amod |
| 3 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 strong | nsubj |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 powers | advmod |
| 5 | below | below | ADV | _ | 4 here | advmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 strong | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 strong | advmod |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 8 strong | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 reach | mark |
| 11 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 strong | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 treasures | det |
| 13 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 reach | obj |
| 14 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 treasures | acl |
| 15 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 life | det |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lying | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ordained | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ordained | cc |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 ordained | obj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 destiny | nmod:poss |
| 22 | destiny | destiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ordained | nsubj |
| 23 | ordained | ordain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 strong | conj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 obtain | nsubj |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 obtain | aux |
| 26 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 ordained | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Care's mental powers | enough, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reach | to-infinitive | Care's mental powers not said here | the treasures | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | the treasures not said here | this life | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beyond life=Location | ||||
| 4 | ordain | past | Care's destiny | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | obtain | should | Care | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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