Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 43
But in the portion of the book entitled "Life after Death" not a single point could he see distinctly.
Who acts: single point · What happens: entitle, not see · To what, where: Life, portion
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 (single point), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 entitled | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 portion | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 portion | det |
| 4 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entitled | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 book | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 book | det |
| 7 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 portion | nmod |
| 8 | entitled | entitle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Life | punct |
| 10 | Life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entitled | obj |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 Death | case |
| 12 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 entitled | obl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 see | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 point | det |
| 16 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 point | amod |
| 17 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | nsubj:outer |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 entitled | conj |
| 21 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 20 see | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 entitled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entitle | past | Life | the portion of the book | after Death | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not see | could | a single point | distinctly 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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