Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 220

Then he uttered over them the echoes of lying words that they might become strong.

Who acts: God, lying words · What happens: utter, lie, become · To what, where: echoes

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, lying words), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 uttered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 uttered	nsubj
3	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 uttered	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 echoes	det
7	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 uttered	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 words	case
9	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 words	amod
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 echoes	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 become	nsubj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 become	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 become	aux
14	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 words	acl:relcl
15	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 become	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 uttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	utter speech: other	past	God	the echoes of lying words	then	over bubbles = bubble	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent echo=Topic
2	lie	gerund					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	become	might	lying words			strong property	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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