Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 22

He saw the human race wither and fall like leaves from the tree; he saw new men come to fill their places, but the leaves that fell off never sprouted forth again; they crumbled to dust or were absorbed into other plants.

Who acts: Solomon, new men, leaves · What happens: see, fall, come, fill, fall off, not sprout · To what, where: human race wither, tree, places, other plants · 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, new men, leaves), 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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wither	det
4	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wither	amod
5	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wither	compound
6	wither	wither	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fall	cc
8	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 leaves	case
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fall	obl
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 tree	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fall	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
17	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 men	amod
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 come	nsubj
19	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 saw	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 fill	mark
21	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	advcl
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 places	nmod:poss
23	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fill	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fell	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 fell	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 leaves	det
27	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fell	nsubj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 fell	nsubj
29	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
30	off	off	ADP	_	29 fell	compound:prt
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 sprouted	advmod
32	sprouted	sprout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 fell	advcl
33	forth	forth	ADV	_	32 sprouted	advmod
34	again	again	ADV	_	32 sprouted	advmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 crumbled	punct
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 crumbled	nsubj
37	crumbled	crumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
38	to	to	PART	_	39 dust	mark
39	dust	dust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 crumbled	xcomp
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 absorbed	cc
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 absorbed	aux:pass
42	absorbed	absorb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 crumbled	conj
43	into	into	ADP	_	45 plants	case
44	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 plants	amod
45	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 absorbed	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Solomon	the human race wither				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wither=Stimulus
2	fall	present	Solomon not said here		the tree		like leaves	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial_Location
3	see	past	Solomon					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	come	present	new men					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fill	to-infinitive	new men not said here	leaves's places				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent place=Patient
6	fall off	past	the leaves					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	not sprout	participle	the leaves not said here			again	forth property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
8	crumble	past	leaves = leaf					tree rules
9	dust	to-infinitive	leaves = leaf not said here					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
10	absorb	past · passive	leaves = leaf not said here		other plants			vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»

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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