Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 48
In all created things within his reach he sought the light that should shine upon the certainty of an eternal life, but he found it not.
Who acts: point, light · What happens: create, seek, shine, not find · To what, where: light, created things, certainty
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, light), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 things | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 things | det |
| 3 | created | create | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 things | amod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sought | obl |
| 5 | within | within | ADP | _ | 7 reach | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 reach | nmod:poss |
| 7 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sought | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sought | nsubj |
| 9 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 light | det |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sought | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 shine | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 shine | aux |
| 14 | shine | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 light | acl:relcl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 certainty | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 certainty | det |
| 17 | certainty | certainty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shine | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 life | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 life | det |
| 20 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 life | amod |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 certainty | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 found | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 found | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 found | nsubj |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sought | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 found | obj |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 found | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create | participle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | seek | past | point | the light | all created things | within point's reach | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent light=Theme in thing=Location | ||
| 3 | shine | should | the light | the certainty of a eternal life | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon certainty=Location | ||||
| 4 | not find | past | point | light | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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