Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 55

Then their father told them that in the world there was nothing but toil and difficulty: that it was not quite what it appeared to them, as they looked upon it in their beautiful home.

Who acts: father, nothing, difficulty, it, sons · What happens: tell, be, not be, appear, look · To what, where: sons, world, beautiful home · 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, nothing, difficulty, it), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 was	mark
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 was	obl
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 was	expl
11	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	ccomp
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 was	nsubj
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 toil	cc
14	toil	toil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nothing	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 difficulty	cc
16	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nothing	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 what	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 what	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 what	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 what	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 what	advmod
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 what	advmod
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 told	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 appeared	nsubj
25	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 what	acl:relcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 appeared	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 looked	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 looked	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 looked	nsubj
31	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 looked	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 home	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 home	nmod:poss
36	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 home	amod
37	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 looked	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	sons's father	sons = son		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	be	past	nothing		the world; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location
3	not is a	past	difficulty					tree rules
4	appear	past	it	sons = son				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	look	past	sons = son		sons's beautiful home		upon difficulty	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme

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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