Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 59
This information would have been beyond the perception of other children; but these children understood, and others will learn to comprehend its meaning after a time.
Who acts: information, children, others · What happens: be, understand, learn, comprehend, mean · To what, where: meaning
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 (information, children, others), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 information | det |
| 2 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 perception | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 perception | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 perception | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 perception | cop |
| 6 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 8 perception | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 perception | det |
| 8 | perception | perception | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 children | case |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 children | amod |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 perception | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 understood | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 understood | cc |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 children | det |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 understood | nsubj |
| 16 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 perception | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 learn | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 learn | cc |
| 19 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 learn | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 learn | aux |
| 21 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 understood | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 comprehend | mark |
| 23 | comprehend | comprehend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 learn | xcomp |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 25 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 comprehend | obj |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 comprehend | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 perception | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would · perfect | this information | beyond the perception; of other children | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | understand | past | this children | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | learn | future | others | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | comprehend | to-infinitive | others not said here | information's meaning | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | mean | information | nom meaning «communication 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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