Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 34
How narrow are the limits which confine the bodily sight, and how little can be seen by the eye of the soul.
Who acts: narrow limits, eye · What happens: be, confine, see · To what, where: narrow limits, bodily sight
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 (narrow limits, eye), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 narrow | advmod |
| 2 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 limits | amod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 limits | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 limits | det |
| 5 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 confine | nsubj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 confine | nsubj |
| 7 | confine | confine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sight | det |
| 9 | bodily | bodily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sight | amod |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 confine | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seen | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seen | cc |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 little | advmod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 seen | xcomp |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 seen | aux:pass |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 confine | advcl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 eye | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 eye | det |
| 20 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seen | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 soul | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 soul | det |
| 23 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eye | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 confine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the narrow limits | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | confine | present | the narrow limits | the bodily sight | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | can · passive | the eye of the soul | little property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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