Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 20

And King Solomon himself had to die at last, and this fact it was which so often occupied the thoughts of this great man in the castle on the Tree of the Sun. He knew that he also, however high he might tower above other men in wisdom, must one day die.

Who acts: King Solomon, fact, Solomon · What happens: have, die, occupy, know, tower · To what, where: last, thoughts · Speech: someone speaks here

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 Solomon, fact, Solomon), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 had	cc
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Solomon	compound
3	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 Solomon	nmod
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 die	mark
7	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 last	case
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 die	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 occupied	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 occupied	cc
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 fact	det
13	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 occupied	nsubj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 was	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fact	acl
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 occupied	obj
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 occupied	advmod
18	often	often	ADV	_	19 occupied	advmod
19	occupied	occupy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 thoughts	det
21	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 occupied	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 man	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 man	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 knew	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 castle	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 castle	det
28	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 man	nmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 Tree	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Tree	det
31	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 castle	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 Sun.	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Sun.	det
34	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Tree	nmod
35	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 knew	nsubj
36	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thoughts	acl:relcl
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 die	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 die	nsubj
39	also	also	ADV	_	55 die	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 also	punct
41	however	however	ADV	_	42 high	advmod
42	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	45 tower	advmod
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 tower	nsubj
44	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 tower	aux
45	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 die	obl
46	above	above	ADP	_	48 men	case
47	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 men	amod
48	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 tower	nmod
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 wisdom	case
50	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 men	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 tower	punct
52	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 die	aux
53	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 day	nummod
54	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 die	obl:unmarked
55	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 knew	ccomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	King Solomon Solomon					tree rules
2	die	to-infinitive	King Solomon Solomon not said here		last			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	occupy	past	this fact	the thoughts			often property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer thought=Result
4	know	past	Solomon	the thoughts not said here			of this great man in the castle on the Tree of the Sun.	tree rules
5	tower	might	Solomon				above other men in wisdom; high property	tree rules
6	die	must	Solomon			day		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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