Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 16
He knew everything that a man on earth can know or imagine.
Who acts: man · What happens: know, imagine · To what, where: everything
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 knew | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 know | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 know | nsubj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 earth | case |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | nmod |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | aux |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 everything | acl:relcl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 imagine | cc |
| 12 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 know | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | man | everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | can | a man on earth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | imagine | infinitive | a man on earth not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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