Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 58

He told them that, by searching, man could attain to a knowledge of the existence of God, and that it was in the power of every man to discover the certainty that such a jewel as the philosopher's stone really existed.

Who acts: splendor, man, existence, certainty, God · What happens: tell, search, attain, be, discover, exist · To what, where: jewel, power, certainty · 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 (splendor, man, existence, certainty), 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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 them	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 searching	punct
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 searching	mark
7	searching	search	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 told	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 attain	punct
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 attain	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 attain	aux
11	attain	attain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 searching	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 knowledge	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 knowledge	det
14	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 attain	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 existence	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 existence	det
17	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 knowledge	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 God	case
19	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 existence	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 power	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 power	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 power	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 power	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 power	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 power	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 power	det
27	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 man	case
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 man	det
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 power	nmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 discover	mark
32	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 certainty	det
34	certainty	certainty	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 discover	obj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 existed	nsubj
36	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	38 jewel	det:predet
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 jewel	det
38	jewel	jewel	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 existed	nsubj
39	as	as	ADP	_	43 stone	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 philosopher	det
41	philosopher	philosopher	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 stone	nmod:poss
42	's	's	PART	_	41 philosopher	case
43	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 jewel	nmod
44	really	really	ADV	_	45 existed	advmod
45	existed	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 certainty	acl:relcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	splendor		jewel			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	search	gerund						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	attain	could	man				to a knowledge of the existence of God	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	existence			the power	of every man	tree rules
5	discover	to-infinitive	splendor not said here	the certainty				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent certainty=Topic
6	exist	past	the certainty					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	exist		God					nom existence «state 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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