Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 14

All was to be seen in living pictures by those who wished it, but all would have been too much for even the wisest man, and this man dwelt here.

Who acts: man · What happens: see, wish, be, dwell · To what, where: All, living pictures, place

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), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 seen	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux:pass
3	to	to	PART	_	5 seen	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 seen	aux:pass
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pictures	case
7	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pictures	amod
8	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seen	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 those	case
10	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 pictures	nmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 wished	nsubj
12	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 those	acl:relcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wished	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 much	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 much	cc
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 much	det
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 much	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 much	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 much	cop
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seen	conj
22	for	for	ADP	_	26 man	case
23	even	even	ADV	_	26 man	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 much	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dwelt	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 dwelt	cc
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 man	det
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dwelt	nsubj
31	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	conj
32	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 dwelt	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past · passive		All	living pictures by those		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	wish	past		place			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	is	would · perfect				for the wisest man; much property	tree rules
4	dwell	past	this man		here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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