Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 89
But while looking for the truth, came the evil one, the father of lies, to intercept him.
What happens: look, come, intercept · To what, where: evil one, father
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 looking | mark |
| 3 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 truth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 truth | det |
| 6 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looking | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 looking | punct |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 10 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 father | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 father | det |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 one | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lies | case |
| 16 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 father | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 intercept | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 intercept | mark |
| 19 | intercept | intercept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 came | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 intercept | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | for the truth | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for truth=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the evil one | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | |||||
| 3 | intercept | to-infinitive | father | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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