Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 23
"What happens to man," asked the wise man of himself, "when touched by the angel of death?
Who acts: wise man · What happens: happen, ask, touch · 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 (wise man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:9151): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 happens | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happens | nsubj |
| 3 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 man | case |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happens | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 happens | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 happens | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 himself | case |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 asked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 touched | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 touched | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 touched | advmod |
| 17 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 happens | advcl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 angel | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 angel | det |
| 20 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touched | obl:agent |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 angel | nmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | present | to man | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the wise man | of man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of himself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | touch in a quote | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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