Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 92

Then he blew upon the motes, and they became beams, so that the clearness of his sight was gone, and the Seer was like a blind man in the world, and had no longer any faith in it.

Who acts: father, spirits, clearness, Seer · What happens: blow, become, be, have, sight · To what, where: beams, world, faith, 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, spirits, clearness, Seer), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 blew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blew	nsubj
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 motes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 motes	det
6	motes	mote	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blew	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 became	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 became	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 became	nsubj
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blew	conj
11	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 became	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gone	punct
13	so	so	SCONJ	_	21 gone	mark
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 gone	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 clearness	det
16	clearness	clearness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gone	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 sight	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sight	nmod:poss
19	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 clearness	nmod
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	cop
21	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 became	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 man	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 man	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Seer	det
25	Seer	seer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 man	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 man	cop
27	like	like	ADP	_	30 man	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 man	det
29	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 man	amod
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gone	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 world	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 man	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 had	cc
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blew	conj
37	no	no	ADV	_	38 longer	advmod
38	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 had	advmod
39	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	40 faith	det
40	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 had	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 faith	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	father			then	upon the motes	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	become	past	spirits = spirit	beams				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	the clearness of father's sight				gone property	tree rules
4	is	past	the Seer		the world		like a blind man	tree rules
5	have	past	father not said here	any faith	sight		long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Patient
6	sight		father					nom sight «cognition transitive»: 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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