Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 15

At the time of Moses and the prophets, such a man would have been placed among the sages of the land; in the middle ages they would have burnt him at the stake.

What happens: place, burnt · To what, where: man, sages, explanations, middle ages

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: 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 placed	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Moses	case
5	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 time	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 prophets	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prophets	det
8	prophets	prophet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Moses	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 man	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 placed	nsubj:pass
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 placed	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 placed	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 placed	aux:pass
16	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	among	among	ADP	_	19 sages	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sages	det
19	sages	sage	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 placed	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 land	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 land	det
22	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sages	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 burnt	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 ages	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ages	det
26	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ages	compound
27	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 burnt	obl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 burnt	nsubj:pass
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 burnt	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 burnt	aux
31	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 placed	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 burnt	obj
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 stake	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 stake	det
35	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 burnt	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	would · perfect · passive		such man		the sages of the land	time		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme among sage=Destination
2	burnt	would · perfect · passive		explanations = explanation			in the middle ages	at the stake	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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