Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 82
At first he nearly lost his eyes in astonishment at the rubbish and mockery brought forward to represent the beautiful; but he kept his eyes, and soon found full employment for them.
Who acts: good, mockery · What happens: lose, bring forward, represent, keep, find · To what, where: eyes, astonishment, beautiful, full employment
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 (good, mockery), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 lost | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 lost | advmod |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lost | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 astonishment | case |
| 9 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 rubbish | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rubbish | det |
| 12 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brought | cc |
| 14 | mockery | mockery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | nsubj |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | conj |
| 16 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 15 brought | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 represent | mark |
| 18 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 brought | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 beautiful | det |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 represent | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 kept | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 kept | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 kept | nsubj |
| 24 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 kept | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 found | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 found | cc |
| 29 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 found | advmod |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | conj |
| 31 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 employment | amod |
| 32 | employment | employment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 found | obj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 found | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | good | good's eyes | astonishment | at the rubbish; nearly property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | bring forward | past | mockery | forward property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | represent | to-infinitive | mockery not said here | the beautiful | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot beautiful=Theme | ||||
| 4 | keep | past | good | good's eyes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | past | good not said here | full employment | for eyes = eye; soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent employment=Theme for they=Beneficiary |
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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