Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 56

He spoke to them of the true, the beautiful, and the good, and told them that these three held together in the world, and by that union they became crystallized into a precious jewel, clearer than a diamond of the first water--a jewel, whose splendor had a value even in the sight of God, in whose brightness all things are dim.

Who acts: father, three, union, splendor, things · What happens: speak, tell, hold together, crystallize, have, be · To what, where: sons, world, precious jewel, value, brightness, God · 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, three, union, splendor), 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 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	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 spoke	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 true	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 true	det
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spoke	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 beautiful	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beautiful	det
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 true	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 good	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 good	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 good	det
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 true	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	parataxis
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 held	mark
20	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 three	det
21	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 held	nsubj
22	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 told	ccomp
23	together	together	ADV	_	22 held	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 world	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 held	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 crystallized	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 crystallized	cc
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 union	case
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 union	det
31	union	union	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 crystallized	obl
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 crystallized	nsubj
33	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 crystallized	aux:pass
34	crystallized	crystallize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 told	conj
35	into	into	ADP	_	38 jewel	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 jewel	det
37	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 jewel	amod
38	jewel	jewel	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 crystallized	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 clearer	punct
40	clearer	clear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 jewel	conj
41	than	than	ADP	_	43 diamond	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 diamond	det
43	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 clearer	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 water	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 water	det
46	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	47 water	amod
47	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 diamond	nmod
48	--	--	PUNCT	_	50 jewel	punct
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 jewel	det
50	jewel	jewel	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 jewel	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 had	punct
52	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	53 splendor	nmod:poss
53	splendor	splendor	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 had	nsubj
54	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 jewel	acl:relcl
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 value	det
56	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 had	obj
57	even	even	ADV	_	60 sight	advmod
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 sight	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 sight	det
60	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 had	obj
61	of	of	ADP	_	62 God	case
62	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 sight	nmod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 brightness	punct
64	in	in	ADP	_	66 brightness	case
65	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	66 brightness	nmod:poss
66	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 crystallized	obl
67	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	68 things	det
68	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 dim	nsubj
69	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	70 dim	cop
70	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 brightness	acl:relcl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	father		sons = son		of the true	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past			sons = son			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	hold together	participle	this three			the world	together property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location
4	crystallize	past · passive	that union	sons = son		a precious jewel and a jewel	in brightness	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
5	have	past	splendor	a value				tree rules
6	is	present	all things	brightness not said here			dim property	tree rules
7	sight			God				nom sight «cognition 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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