Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 50

Christianity placed before him in the Bible a promise of eternal life, but he wanted to read it in his book, in which nothing on the subject appeared to be written.

Who acts: Christianity, point, nothing · What happens: place, want, read, appear, write, promise · To what, where: promise, Bible, book, eternal life

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 (Christianity, point, nothing), 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	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 placed	nsubj
2	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 placed	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 Bible	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Bible	det
7	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 placed	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 promise	det
9	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 placed	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 life	case
11	eternal	eternal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 life	amod
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 promise	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wanted	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 wanted	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wanted	nsubj
16	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 placed	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 read	mark
18	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wanted	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 read	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 book	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 book	nmod:poss
22	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 read	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 appeared	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 appeared	obl
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 appeared	nsubj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 subject	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 subject	det
29	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 nothing	nmod
30	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wanted	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	33 written	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 written	aux:pass
33	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 appeared	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	place	past	Christianity	a promise of eternal life	the Bible	before point	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent promise=Theme before he=Destination
2	want	past	point				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	read not said to happen	to-infinitive	point not said here	promise	point's book		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	appear	past	nothing				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
5	write	to-infinitive · passive	nothing not said here				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»
6	promise			eternal life			nom promise «communication transitive»: of=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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