Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 45
Should he never be able here on earth to obtain a light by which everything written in the Book of Truth should become clear to him?
Who acts: point, able · What happens: not be, obtain, write, become · To what, where: light
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 (point, able), 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 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 able | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 able | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 able | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | cop |
| 5 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 become | nsubj |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 able | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 earth | case |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 here | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 obtain | mark |
| 10 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 light | det |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 obtain | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 everything | case |
| 14 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 15 everything | det |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 obtain | obl |
| 16 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 everything | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Book | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Book | det |
| 19 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 written | obl:agent |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Truth | case |
| 21 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Book | nmod |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 become | aux |
| 23 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 24 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 become | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 clear | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | should | point | here | able property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | obtain | to-infinitive | point not said here | a light | by everything | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset light=Theme | |||
| 3 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | become | should | able | clear property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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