Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 2
He could read and obtain information respecting every people of every land; but not a word could he find to explain the situation of the garden of paradise, and this was just what he most wished to know.
Who acts: son, information, word, this · What happens: read, obtain, respect, find, explain, be · To what, where: information, people, situation
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, information, word, this), 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 read | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 read | aux |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 obtain | cc |
| 5 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 read | conj |
| 6 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 obtain | obj |
| 7 | respecting | respect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 information | acl |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 respecting | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 land | det |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 people | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 find | cc |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 word | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 word | det |
| 17 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 read | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 explain | mark |
| 22 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 find | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 situation | det |
| 24 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 explain | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 garden | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 garden | det |
| 27 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 situation | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 paradise | case |
| 29 | paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 garden | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 what | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 what | cc |
| 32 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 what | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 what | cop |
| 34 | just | just | ADV | _ | 35 what | advmod |
| 35 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 find | obl |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 wished | nsubj |
| 37 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 38 wished | advmod |
| 38 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 what | acl:relcl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 know | mark |
| 40 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 wished | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | could | son | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | obtain | infinitive | son not said here | information | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset information=Theme | ||||
| 3 | respect | gerund | information not said here | every people of every land | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | find | could | a word | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | explain speech: assert | to-infinitive | a word not said here | the situation of the garden of paradise | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent situation=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | this | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | wish | participle | son | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | son not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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