Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 13

The greater part of it was beyond my comprehension, but it led me to think that if we men can acquire so much, we must surely be intended to last longer than the little span which extends only to the time when we are hidden away under the earth.

Who acts: greater part, part, me, we, little span · What happens: be, lead, think, acquire, intend, last · To what, where: me, we, earth

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greater part, part, me, we), 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	3 part	det
2	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 part	amod
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comprehension	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 part	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 comprehension	cop
7	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	9 comprehension	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 comprehension	nmod:poss
9	comprehension	comprehension	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 led	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 led	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 led	nsubj
13	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 comprehension	parataxis
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 led	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 think	mark
16	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 led	xcomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 acquire	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 acquire	mark
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 acquire	nsubj
20	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 acquire	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 acquire	aux
22	acquire	acquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 think	ccomp
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 much	advmod
24	much	much	ADV	_	22 acquire	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 intended	punct
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 intended	nsubj:pass
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 intended	aux
28	surely	surely	ADV	_	30 intended	advmod
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 intended	aux:pass
30	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 led	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 last	mark
32	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 intended	xcomp
33	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 last	advmod
34	than	than	ADP	_	37 span	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 span	det
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 span	amod
37	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 last	obl
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 extends	nsubj
39	extends	extend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 span	acl:relcl
40	only	only	ADV	_	43 time	advmod
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 time	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 time	det
43	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 extends	obl
44	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	47 hidden	advmod
45	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 hidden	nsubj
46	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 hidden	aux:pass
47	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 extends	advcl
48	away	away	ADV	_	47 hidden	advmod
49	under	under	ADP	_	51 earth	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 earth	det
51	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hidden	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 comprehension	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the greater part of o'clock				beyond my comprehension	tree rules
2	lead	past	part	me				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Patient clause=Result
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	me not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	acquire a condition, not said to happen	can	we					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	intend	must · passive		we			surely property	tree rules
6	last not said to happen	to-infinitive					than the little span; long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
7	extend	present	the little span			time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	hide away	present · passive		we	the earth		away property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient under earth=Location

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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