Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 42

The wise man knew how to unite the sunlight and the moonlight with the light of reason and the hidden powers of nature; and through this stronger light, many things in the pages were made clear to him.

Who acts: wise man · What happens: know, unite, make, light · To what, where: sunlight, many things, stronger light, reason

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.

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 unite	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 unite	mark
7	unite	unite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knew	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sunlight	det
9	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 unite	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 moonlight	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moonlight	det
12	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sunlight	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 light	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 light	det
15	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 unite	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 reason	case
17	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 light	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 powers	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 powers	det
20	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 powers	amod
21	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 reason	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 nature	case
23	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 powers	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 made	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 made	cc
26	through	through	ADP	_	29 light	case
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 light	det
28	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 light	amod
29	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 made	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 things	punct
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 things	amod
32	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 made	nsubj:pass
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 pages	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pages	det
35	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 things	nmod
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 made	aux:pass
37	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 knew	conj
38	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 made	xcomp
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 clear	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	the wise man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	unite	to-infinitive	the wise man not said here	the sunlight and the moonlight		with the light of reason and the hidden powers of nature	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient with light=Co-Patient
3	make	past · passive		many things in the pages	this stronger light	clear property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	light			reason and the hidden powers of nature			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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