Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 19

He could govern the powers of nature and held sway over potent spirits; even Death itself was obliged to give him every morning a list of those who were to die during the day.

Who acts: king · What happens: govern, hold, oblige, give, die, list · To what, where: powers, sway, potent spirits, Death, list, king

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 (king), 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	3 govern	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 govern	aux
3	govern	govern	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 powers	det
5	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 govern	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 nature	case
7	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 powers	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 held	cc
9	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 govern	conj
10	sway	sway	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 held	obj
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 spirits	case
12	potent	potent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 spirits	amod
13	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 held	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 obliged	punct
15	even	even	ADV	_	16 Death	advmod
16	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 obliged	nsubj:pass
17	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	16 Death	nmod:unmarked
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 obliged	aux:pass
19	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 govern	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 give	mark
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 obliged	xcomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 give	iobj
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 morning	det
24	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obl:unmarked
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 list	det
26	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 those	case
28	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 list	nmod
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 die	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 die	aux
31	to	to	PART	_	32 die	mark
32	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 those	acl:relcl
33	during	during	ADP	_	35 day	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 day	det
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 die	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 govern	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	govern	could	king	the powers of nature				vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent power=Theme
2	hold	past	king not said here	sway		potent spirits		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sway=Theme over spirit=Location
3	oblige	past · passive		Death sway				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	give	to-infinitive		a list of those	king		morning	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient list=Theme
5	die	past					day	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	list			those				nom list «communication transitive»: of=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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