Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 97

This one possessed the sense of hearing to a very high degree: so acute was this sense, that it was said he could hear the grass grow.

Who acts: one, acute, Seer, grass · What happens: possess, be, say, hear, grow, sense · To what, where: sense, acute, grass, hearing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (one, acute, Seer, grass), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 possessed	nsubj
3	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sense	det
5	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 possessed	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 hearing	case
7	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sense	nmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 degree	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 degree	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 high	advmod
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 degree	amod
12	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 possessed	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 sense	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	18 sense	advmod
15	acute	acute	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sense	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sense	cop
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 sense	det
18	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 possessed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hear	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 said	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 said	aux:pass
23	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 hear	advcl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hear	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 hear	aux
26	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sense	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 grass	det
28	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hear	obj
29	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 hear	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 possessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	possess	past	this one	the sense of hearing	to a high degree	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sense=Theme
2	is a	past	acute	this sense		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past · passive		acute		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
4	hear	could	Seer	the grass		tree rules
5	grow	infinitive	the grass not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sense			hearing		nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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