Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 47

He found out the nature of plants and metals, and their power in curing diseases and arresting death, but none to destroy death itself.

Who acts: point, power, none · What happens: find out, cure, arrest, destroy · To what, where: nature, diseases, death

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, power, none), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 found	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nature	det
5	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 plants	case
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 nature	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 metals	cc
9	metals	metal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 plants	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 power	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 power	cc
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 power	nmod:poss
13	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
14	in	in	SCONJ	_	15 curing	mark
15	curing	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 power	acl
16	diseases	disease	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 curing	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 arresting	cc
18	arresting	arrest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 curing	conj
19	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 arresting	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 destroy	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 destroy	cc
22	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	24 destroy	nsubj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 destroy	mark
24	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 found	parataxis
25	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 destroy	obj
26	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	25 death	nmod:unmarked
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find out	past	point	the nature of plants and metals	metals's power obl	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Topic
2	cure	gerund	metals's power not said here	diseases		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer disease=Source
3	arrest	gerund	metals's power not said here	death		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Patient
4	destroy	to-infinitive	none	death nature		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=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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