Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 21

He knew that his children would fade away like the leaves of the forest and become dust.

Who acts: Solomon, children · What happens: know, fade away, become · To what, where: dust · 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 (Solomon, children), 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	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 fade	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 children	nmod:poss
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fade	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fade	aux
7	fade	fade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	ccomp
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 fade	advmod
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 leaves	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 leaves	det
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fade	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 forest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 forest	det
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leaves	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 become	cc
16	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fade	conj
17	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 become	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	Solomon			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	fade away	would	Solomon's children		like the leaves of the forest; away property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	become	infinitive	Solomon's children not said here	dust		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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