Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 38
Every man may read in this book, but only in fragments.
Who acts: man · What happens: read · To what, where: book
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), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 read | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 read | aux |
| 4 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 book | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 book | det |
| 7 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 read | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fragments | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 fragments | cc |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 fragments | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 fragments | case |
| 12 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 book | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | may | every man | this book but fragments | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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