Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 32

He saw that to this earthly sphere above and below were constantly changing places, and that the position varied according to the spot on which a man found himself.

Who acts: man, position · What happens: see, change, vary, accord, find · To what, where: that, places, man, spot

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 (man, position), 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	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 saw	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 sphere	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 sphere	det
6	earthly	earthly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sphere	amod
7	sphere	sphere	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl
8	above	above	ADV	_	7 sphere	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 changing	cc
10	below	below	ADV	_	13 changing	advmod
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 changing	aux
12	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	13 changing	advmod
13	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 saw	conj
14	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 changing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 varied	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 varied	cc
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 varied	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 position	det
19	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 varied	nsubj
20	varied	vary	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
21	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 spot	case
22	to	to	ADP	_	21 according	fixed
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 spot	det
24	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 varied	obl
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 found	obl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 man	det
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 found	nsubj
29	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 spot	acl:relcl
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 found	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	man	that		to this earthly sphere	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	change	past · progressive	man not said here	places		below, constantly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
3	vary	past	the position			accord the spot	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	find	past	a man	man	the spot		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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