Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 100

But he soon discovered that one may have too much of a good thing.

Who acts: Seer, one · What happens: discover, have · To what, where: much

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seer, one), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 discovered	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 discovered	nsubj
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 discovered	advmod
4	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 have	mark
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 have	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 discovered	ccomp
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 have	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 thing	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thing	det
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 much	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discover	past	Seer					soon property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	may	one	much of a good thing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient

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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