Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 111

And now he could hear nothing more of the true, the beautiful, and the good; for his hearing was to have been the means by which he hoped to acquire his knowledge.

Who acts: tumult, the · What happens: hear, have, be, hope, acquire · To what, where: nothing, knowledge · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (tumult, the), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 hear	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 hear	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hear	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 hear	obj
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 nothing	amod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 true	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 true	det
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 more	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 beautiful	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 beautiful	det
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nothing	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 good	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 good	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 good	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beautiful	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 hearing	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 hearing	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hearing	nmod:poss
21	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	parataxis
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
23	to	to	PART	_	24 have	mark
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 hearing	acl:relcl
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 means	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 means	nsubj
27	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 have	parataxis
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 hoped	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 hoped	nsubj
31	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 means	ccomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 acquire	mark
33	acquire	acquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 hoped	xcomp
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 knowledge	nmod:poss
35	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 acquire	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	could	tumult	nothing	now		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	have	past	tumult not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	participle	the			mean property	tree rules
4	hope	past	tumult				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	acquire not said to happen	to-infinitive	tumult not said here	tumult's knowledge			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset knowledge=Theme
6	hear		tumult				nom hearing «act intransitive»: poss=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: «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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