Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 54

He explained to them what they saw in the pictures of life on the castle walls--the doings of man, and the progress of events in all the lands of the earth; and the sons often expressed a wish that they could be present, and take a part in these great deeds.

Who acts: father, sons, events · What happens: explain, see, express, be, take, progress · To what, where: sons, pictures, wish, part, great deeds · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (father, sons, events), 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 explained	nsubj
2	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 explained	obl
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 saw	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 explained	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 pictures	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pictures	det
10	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 saw	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 life	case
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pictures	nmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 walls	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 walls	det
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 walls	compound
16	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 life	nmod
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 doings	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 doings	det
19	doings	doing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 walls	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 man	case
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 doings	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 progress	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 progress	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 progress	det
25	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 explained	parataxis
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 events	case
27	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 progress	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 lands	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 lands	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 lands	det
31	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 events	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 earth	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 earth	det
34	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lands	nmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 expressed	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 expressed	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sons	det
38	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 expressed	nsubj
39	often	often	ADV	_	40 expressed	advmod
40	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 explained	conj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 wish	det
42	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 expressed	obj
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 present	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 present	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 present	aux
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 present	cop
47	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 expressed	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 take	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 take	cc
50	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 explained	parataxis
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 part	det
52	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 take	obj
53	in	in	ADP	_	56 deeds	case
54	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	56 deeds	det
55	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 deeds	amod
56	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 take	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 explained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	past	father		sons = son			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	see	past	sons = son			the pictures of life on the castle walls and the doings of man		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	express	past	the sons	a wish			often property	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme
4	is	could	sons = son				present property	tree rules
5	take	infinitive		a part		this great deeds		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in deed=Location
6	progress		events in all lands of the earth					nom progress «act intransitive»: of=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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