Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 76
In the case of the eldest, this pre-eminent sense was sight, which he hoped would be of special service.
Who acts: pre-eminent sense, sight · What happens: be, hope · To what, where: sight, case
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 (pre-eminent sense, sight), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 case | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 case | det |
| 3 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sight | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 eldest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eldest | det |
| 6 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 case | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 case | punct |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 sense | det |
| 9 | pre-eminent | pre-eminent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sense | amod |
| 10 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sight | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sight | cop |
| 12 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hoped | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 hoped | nsubj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hoped | nsubj |
| 16 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sight | acl:relcl |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 service | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 service | cop |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 service | case |
| 20 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 service | amod |
| 21 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hoped | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this pre-eminent sense | sight | the case of the eldest | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hope | past | sight | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is | would | of special service | tree rules |
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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