Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 146
Sight and hearing have always been considered two of the chief senses among men, and those which they wish to keep bright; the other senses are looked upon as of less importance.
Who acts: two, eldest · What happens: consider, sense, wish, keep, look · To what, where: Sight, other senses
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 (two, eldest), 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 | Sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 hearing | cc |
| 3 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sight | conj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 considered | aux |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 considered | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 considered | aux:pass |
| 7 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 senses | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 chief | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chief | det |
| 11 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 two | nmod |
| 12 | senses | sense | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 considered | parataxis |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 senses | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 those | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 those | cc |
| 17 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 considered | xcomp |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 wish | obj |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wish | nsubj |
| 20 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 those | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 keep | mark |
| 22 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wish | xcomp |
| 23 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 keep | xcomp |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 looked | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 senses | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 senses | amod |
| 27 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 looked | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 looked | aux:pass |
| 29 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 considered | conj |
| 30 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 looked | obl |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 34 importance | case |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 as | fixed |
| 33 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 importance | amod |
| 34 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 looked | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | present · perfect · passive | Sight and hearing | always property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | sense | present | two of the chief | among men | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | wish | present | eldest | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | eldest not said here | bright property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | look | present · passive | the other senses | as less importance | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
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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