Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 232
I allowed it to be penetrated with the fragrance of the beautiful, of which there is so much in the world, even for the blind.
Who acts: I, grain, much · What happens: allow, penetrate, be · To what, where: grain
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 (I, grain, much), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 allowed | nsubj |
| 2 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 allowed | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 penetrated | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 penetrated | aux:pass |
| 6 | penetrated | penetrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 allowed | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 fragrance | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fragrance | det |
| 9 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 penetrated | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 beautiful | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beautiful | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fragrance | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 is | punct |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 is | obl |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 is | expl |
| 17 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 penetrated | parataxis |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 is | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 much | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 blind | punct |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 27 blind | advmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 blind | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 blind | det |
| 27 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 allowed | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past | I | grain | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer it=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | penetrate not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | grain not said here | with the fragrance of the beautiful | vn poke-19 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with fragrance=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | be | present | much in the world | there | vn exist-47.1 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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