Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 149
Every man's mind was to him as a vessel in which something was concocting; every land a kind of mental kitchen. "
Who acts: mind, something, man · What happens: be, concoct, mind · To what, where: vessel
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 (mind, something, 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mind | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 man | case |
| 4 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vessel | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 vessel | cop |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 was | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 vessel | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 vessel | det |
| 10 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 concocting | obl |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 concocting | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 concocting | aux |
| 15 | concocting | concoct | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 vessel | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 land | punct |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 land | det |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vessel | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 kind | det |
| 20 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 land | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 kitchen | case |
| 22 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 kitchen | amod |
| 23 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kind | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 vessel | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 vessel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | every man's mind | as a vessel and every land | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | concoct | past · progressive | something | a vessel and every land | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mind | every man | nom mind «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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