Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 134

But the evil spirit was angry at this, so he set to work with soot and incense, which he can mix so artfully as to confuse an angel, and how much more easily a poor poet.

Who acts: evil spirit, poet, soot · What happens: be, set, work, mix, confuse · To what, where: this, poor poet, angel

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 (evil spirit, poet, soot), 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	_	6 angry	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spirit	det
3	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spirit	amod
4	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 angry	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	cop
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 angry	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 set	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 set	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 set	nsubj
12	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 work	mark
14	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 set	xcomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 soot	case
16	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 work	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 incense	cc
18	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 soot	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 mix	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 mix	nsubj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 mix	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 mix	aux
23	mix	mix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 soot	parataxis
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 artfully	advmod
25	artfully	artfully	ADV	_	23 mix	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 confuse	mark
27	to	to	PART	_	28 confuse	mark
28	confuse	confuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 artfully	advcl
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 angel	det
30	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 confuse	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 poet	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 poet	cc
33	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 much	advmod
34	much	much	ADV	_	35 more	advmod
35	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 easily	advmod
36	easily	easily	ADV	_	39 poet	advmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 poet	det
38	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 poet	amod
39	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the evil spirit		this	angry property	tree rules
2	set	past	poet	a poor poet			tree rules
3	work	to-infinitive	poet not said here			with soot and incense	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with soot=Co-Agent
4	mix	can	soot and incense			artfully property	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	confuse	to-infinitive	soot and incense not said here	a angel			vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent angel=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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