Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 46

Like the wise King Solomon, he understood the language of animals, and could interpret their talk into song; but that made him none the wiser.

Who acts: point, that, animals · What happens: understand, interpret, make, talk · To what, where: language, talk, song, none, point

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, that, animals), 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	Like	like	ADP	_	5 Solomon	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Solomon	det
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Solomon	amod
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Solomon	compound
5	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 understood	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Solomon	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 understood	nsubj
8	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 language	det
10	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 understood	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 animals	case
12	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 language	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 interpret	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 interpret	cc
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 interpret	aux
16	interpret	interpret	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 understood	conj
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 talk	nmod:poss
18	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 interpret	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	20 song	case
20	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 interpret	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 made	nsubj
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 understood	parataxis
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 made	obj
26	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	24 made	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wiser	det
28	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 made	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	understand	past	point	the language of animals			like the wise King Solomon	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus
2	interpret	could	point not said here	animals's talk		song		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent talk=Theme
3	make	past	that	none	point			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary none=Product
4	talk		animals = animal					nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=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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