Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 217
But the evil spirit could not see this and remain contented.
Who acts: evil spirit · What happens: not see, remain, content · To what, where: this
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 (evil spirit), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 see | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spirit | det |
| 3 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spirit | amod |
| 4 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 see | advmod |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 remain | cc |
| 10 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 see | conj |
| 11 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 remain | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | could | the evil spirit | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | remain | infinitive | the evil spirit not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | content | participle | the evil spirit not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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