Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 51

He had five children; four sons, educated as the children of such a wise father should be, and a daughter, fair, gentle, and intelligent, but she was blind; yet this deprivation appeared as nothing to her; her father and brothers were outward eyes to her, and a vivid imagination made everything clear to her mental sight.

Who acts: point, Christianity, deprivation, father, vivid imagination · What happens: have, educate, be, appear, make, sight · To what, where: five children, four sons, outward eyes, Christianity, everything

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, Christianity, deprivation, father), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 children	nummod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 sons	punct
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 sons	nummod
7	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 educated	punct
9	educated	educate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sons	acl
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 be	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 children	det
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 be	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 father	case
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	17 father	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 father	det
16	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 father	amod
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 children	nmod
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 be	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 educated	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 daughter	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 daughter	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 daughter	det
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fair	punct
25	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 daughter	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gentle	punct
27	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fair	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 intelligent	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 intelligent	cc
30	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 blind	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 blind	cc
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 blind	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 blind	cop
35	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 intelligent	conj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 appeared	punct
37	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	40 appeared	cc
38	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 deprivation	det
39	deprivation	deprivation	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 appeared	nsubj
40	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
41	as	as	ADP	_	42 nothing	case
42	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	40 appeared	obl
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 her	case
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 nothing	nmod
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 eyes	punct
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 father	nmod:poss
47	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 eyes	nsubj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 brothers	cc
49	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 father	conj
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 eyes	cop
51	outward	outward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 eyes	amod
52	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 appeared	obl
53	to	to	ADP	_	54 her	case
54	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 eyes	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 made	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 made	cc
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 imagination	det
58	vivid	vivid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 imagination	amod
59	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 made	nsubj
60	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
61	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	60 made	obj
62	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 everything	amod
63	to	to	ADP	_	66 sight	case
64	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 sight	nmod:poss
65	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 sight	amod
66	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 made	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	point	five children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	educate speech: other	participle		four sons not said here			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Christianity			blind property	tree rules
4	appear	past	this deprivation			as nothing	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	Christianity's father and brothers	outward eyes	Christianity		tree rules
6	make	past	a vivid imagination	everything		to Christianity's mental sight	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product
7	sight		Christianity				nom sight «cognition transitive»: 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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