Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 121
This man seeks the fresh sea breeze, while that one climbs the lofty mountain-top, to look down upon the busy life in miniature beneath him."
Who acts: man, one · What happens: seek, climb, look down · To what, where: fresh sea breeze, lofty mountain top, miniature
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 (man, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seeks | nsubj |
| 3 | seeks | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 breeze | det |
| 5 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 breeze | amod |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 breeze | compound |
| 7 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seeks | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 climbs | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 climbs | mark |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 climbs | nsubj |
| 12 | climbs | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seeks | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 top | det |
| 14 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 top | amod |
| 15 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 top | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 mountain | punct |
| 17 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 climbs | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 look | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 look | mark |
| 20 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 climbs | parataxis |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 look | advmod |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 life | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 life | det |
| 24 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 life | amod |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 look | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 miniature | case |
| 27 | miniature | miniature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 look | obl |
| 28 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 look | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seeks | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seeks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | present | this man | the fresh sea breeze | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breeze=Theme | ||||
| 2 | climb | present | that one | the lofty mountain top | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location top=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look down | to-infinitive | miniature | upon the busy life; beneath man; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon life=Theme |
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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