Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 83
He wished to go thoroughly and honestly to work in his endeavor to understand the true, the beautiful, and the good.
Who acts: good · What happens: wish, go, work, understand, endeavor · To what, where: true
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), 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 wished | nsubj |
| 2 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wished | xcomp |
| 5 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 honestly | cc |
| 7 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 5 thoroughly | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 work | mark |
| 9 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 endeavor | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 endeavor | nmod:poss |
| 12 | endeavor | endeavor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 work | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 understand | mark |
| 14 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 work | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 true | det |
| 16 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 understand | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beautiful | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 beautiful | det |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 true | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 good | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 good | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 good | det |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wished | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | good | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | good not said here | thoroughly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | good not said here | in good's endeavor | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in endeavor=Theme | ||||
| 4 | understand | to-infinitive | good not said here | the true | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer true=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | endeavor | good | nom endeavor «act intransitive»: 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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