Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 17
Every invention already in existence or yet to be, was known to him, and much more; still everything on earth has a limit.
Who acts: everything · What happens: know, have · To what, where: invention, man, limit
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 (everything), 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 invention | det |
| 2 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 existence | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 existence | case |
| 5 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 invention | nmod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 yet | cc |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 2 invention | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 be | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 yet | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 invention | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 known | aux:pass |
| 12 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 known | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 has | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 has | cc |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 has | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 everything | punct |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 everything | advmod |
| 21 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 24 has | nsubj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 earth | case |
| 23 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 everything | nmod |
| 24 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 known | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 limit | det |
| 26 | limit | limit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 has | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | every invention in existence | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | present | everything | a limit | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limit=Patient |
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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