Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 254
The star had seen the course of that life on earth, and knew of the man's trials, of his weakness--in fact, that he had been but human.
Who acts: star, man · What happens: see, know, try · To what, where: course, fact
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (star, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 star | det |
| 2 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 course | det |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 life | det |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 course | nmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 earth | case |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 life | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 knew | cc |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 trials | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trials | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 man | case |
| 19 | trials | trial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 knew | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 weakness | punct |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 weakness | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 weakness | nmod:poss |
| 23 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knew | obl |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 fact | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 fact | case |
| 26 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knew | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 been | punct |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 been | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 been | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 been | aux |
| 31 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 knew | parataxis |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 human | cc |
| 33 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 been | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | the star | the course of that life on earth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer course=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | past | the star not said here | fact | of the man's trials; of earth's weakness | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of trial=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | try | the man | nom trial «act 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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