Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 179

Then he bent down over the Book of Truth, and gazed on the page on which he should have read of the life after death, but for him there was nothing to be read or learned upon it.

Who acts: father · What happens: bend down, gaze, read, be, learn · To what, where: Book, page, nothing

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 (father), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 bent	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bent	nsubj
3	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 bent	advmod
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 Book	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Book	det
7	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bent	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Truth	case
9	Truth	Truth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Book	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gazed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gazed	cc
12	gazed	gaze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bent	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 page	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 page	det
15	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gazed	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 read	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 read	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 read	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 read	aux
21	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 page	acl:relcl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 life	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 life	det
24	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 read	obl
25	after	after	ADP	_	26 death	case
26	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 read	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 nothing	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 nothing	cc
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 was	mark
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 was	nsubj
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 was	expl
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 nothing	cop
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 bent	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	36 read	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 read	aux:pass
36	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 nothing	acl
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 learned	cc
38	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 read	conj
39	upon	upon	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 learned	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend down	past	father		the Book of Truth	then	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over book=Location
2	gaze	participle	father not said here				on the page	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on page=Theme
3	read	should · perfect	father		the page	after death	of the life	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of life=Topic
4	is a	past		nothing				tree rules
5	read	to-infinitive · passive	father not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»
6	learn	participle	father not said here				upon life	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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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