Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 90

Gladly would the fiend have plucked out the eyes of this Seer, but that would have been a too straightforward path for him; he works more cunningly.

Who acts: that, father · What happens: pluck out, be, work · To what, where: fiend, straightforward path

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 (that, father), 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	Gladly	gladly	ADV	_	6 plucked	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 plucked	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fiend	det
4	fiend	fiend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plucked	nsubj:pass
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plucked	aux
6	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 plucked	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eyes	det
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 plucked	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Seer	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 Seer	det
12	Seer	seer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eyes	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 path	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 path	cc
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 path	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 path	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 path	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 path	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 path	det
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 straightforward	advmod
21	straightforward	straightforward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 path	amod
22	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plucked	obl
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 path	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 works	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 works	nsubj
27	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plucked	conj
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 cunningly	advmod
29	cunningly	cunningly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 works	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 plucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pluck out	would · perfect · passive		the fiend	gladly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary eye=Theme
2	is a	would · perfect	that	a straightforward path	for father	tree rules
3	work	present	father		cunningly property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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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