Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 147
But the younger son had a different opinion; he had cultivated his taste in every way, and taste is very powerful.
Who acts: younger son, other two, taste · What happens: have, cultivate, be, taste · To what, where: different opinion, taste, way
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 (younger son, other two, taste), 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 | _ | 5 had | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 3 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 son | amod |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 opinion | det |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 opinion | amod |
| 8 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 cultivated | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cultivated | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cultivated | aux |
| 12 | cultivated | cultivate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 had | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 taste | nmod:poss |
| 14 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cultivated | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 way | case |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cultivated | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 powerful | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 powerful | cc |
| 20 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 powerful | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 powerful | cop |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 powerful | advmod |
| 23 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cultivated | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the younger son | a different opinion | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cultivate | past · perfect | other two = two | other two's taste | every way | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Product | |||
| 3 | is | present | taste | powerful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | taste | other two = two | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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