Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 91
He allowed the young man to seek for, and discover, the beautiful and the good; but while he was contemplating them, the evil spirit blew one mote after another into each of his eyes; and such a proceeding would injure the strongest sight.
Who acts: father, evil spirit, proceeding · What happens: allow, seek, discover, contemplate, blow, injure · To what, where: young man, beautiful, eyes, one mote, strongest sight
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 (father, evil spirit, proceeding), 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 allowed | nsubj |
| 2 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 allowed | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 seek | mark |
| 7 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 man | acl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 seek | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 discover | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 discover | cc |
| 11 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 allowed | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beautiful | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beautiful | det |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 discover | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 good | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 good | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beautiful | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 blew | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 blew | cc |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 contemplating | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 contemplating | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 contemplating | aux |
| 23 | contemplating | contemplate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 blew | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 contemplating | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 contemplating | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 spirit | det |
| 27 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 spirit | amod |
| 28 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 blew | nsubj |
| 29 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 allowed | conj |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 mote | nummod |
| 31 | mote | mote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 blew | obj |
| 32 | after | after | ADP | _ | 33 another | case |
| 33 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 blew | obl |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 each | case |
| 35 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 another | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 eyes | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 38 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 each | nmod |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 injure | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 injure | cc |
| 41 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 43 proceeding | det:predet |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 proceeding | det |
| 43 | proceeding | proceeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 injure | nsubj |
| 44 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 injure | aux |
| 45 | injure | injure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 allowed | conj |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 sight | det |
| 47 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 48 sight | amod |
| 48 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 injure | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past | father | the young man | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | seek | to-infinitive | father not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | discover | infinitive | father not said here | the beautiful | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beautiful=Topic | ||||
| 4 | contemplate | past · progressive | father | eyes = eye | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | blow | past | the evil spirit | one mote | after another | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent mote=Patient | |||
| 6 | injure | would | such proceeding | the strongest sight | 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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