Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 116

He had a cheerful temper, and was, besides, a real poet; he could make many things appear poetical, by the way in which he spoke of them, and ideas struck him long before they occurred to the minds of others. "

Who acts: tumult, many things, ideas · What happens: have, be, make, appear, speak, strike · To what, where: cheerful temper, real poet, way, tumult, others · 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, many things, ideas), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 temper	det
4	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 temper	amod
5	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 poet	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 poet	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 poet	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 poet	punct
10	besides	besides	INTJ	_	14 poet	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 besides	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 poet	det
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 poet	amod
14	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 make	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 make	aux
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	parataxis
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 things	amod
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 appear	nsubj
21	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 make	parataxis
22	poetical	poetical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 appear	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 way	punct
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 way	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 way	det
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 appear	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 spoke	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 spoke	nsubj
30	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 way	acl:relcl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 spoke	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 struck	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 struck	cc
35	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 struck	nsubj
36	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 appear	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 struck	obj
38	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 struck	advmod
39	before	before	SCONJ	_	41 occurred	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 occurred	nsubj
41	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 struck	advcl
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 minds	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 minds	det
44	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 occurred	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 others	case
46	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 minds	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	tumult	a cheerful temper			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Patient
2	is a	past		a real poet			tree rules
3	make	could	tumult				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	appear	present	many things			by the way; poetical property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by way=Location
5	speak speech: other	past	tumult		the way	of ways = way	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	strike	past	ideas	tumult		long property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
7	occur	past	ideas = idea			to the minds of others	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	mind			others			nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=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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