Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 218
He has more cleverness than ten thousand men, and he found means to compass his end.
Who acts: God · What happens: have, be, mean · To what, where: more cleverness, God, compass
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 (God), 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 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 cleverness | amod |
| 4 | cleverness | cleverness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 men | case |
| 6 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 thousand | compound |
| 7 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 men | nummod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cleverness | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 means | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 means | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 means | nsubj |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 he | cop |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 compass | mark |
| 15 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 means | obj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 end | nmod:poss |
| 17 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 compass | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | God | more cleverness | than thousand men | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleverness=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | God | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | God | compass | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compass=Topic |
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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