Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 66

Strange to say, not only the second brother but also the third and fourth brothers all dreamt exactly the same thing; namely, that each went out into the world to find the philosopher's stone.

Who acts: third brothers · What happens: say, dreamt, go out, find · To what, where: same thing, world, stone · 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 (third brothers), 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	Strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 say	mark
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Strange	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 brother	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 brother	advmod
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 brother	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brother	det
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 brother	amod
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	ccomp
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 dreamt	cc
11	also	also	ADV	_	18 dreamt	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 brothers	det
13	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 brothers	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fourth	cc
15	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 third	conj
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dreamt	nsubj
17	all	all	ADV	_	18 dreamt	advmod
18	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 brother	conj
19	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	22 thing	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 thing	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thing	amod
22	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dreamt	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Strange	punct
24	namely	namely	ADV	_	1 Strange	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 went	mark
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 went	advmod
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Strange	conj
29	out	out	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 find	mark
34	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 went	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 philosopher	det
36	philosopher	philosopher	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stone	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 philosopher	case
38	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 find	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Strange	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	dreamt	present	the third brothers	the same thing		all property	tree rules
3	go out	past			the world	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	to-infinitive		the philosopher's stone			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic

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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