Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 121
He looked upon God's creation as a great sum in arithmetic--subtracted, multiplied, and tried to know it within and without, and to talk with understanding concerning it; and that was a very sensible thing; and he spoke joyously and cleverly of it.
Who acts: God, understanding, that · What happens: look, subtract, multiply, try, know, talk · To what, where: searcher, sensible thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, understanding, that), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 creation | case |
| 4 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 creation | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 God | case |
| 6 | creation | creation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 sum | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sum | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sum | amod |
| 10 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 arithmetic | case |
| 12 | arithmetic | arithmetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sum | nmod |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 subtracted | punct |
| 14 | subtracted | subtract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 arithmetic | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 multiplied | punct |
| 16 | multiplied | multiply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 subtracted | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tried | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tried | cc |
| 19 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 know | mark |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 tried | xcomp |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 know | obj |
| 23 | within | within | ADP | _ | 21 know | ccomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 without | cc |
| 25 | without | without | ADP | _ | 23 within | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 talk | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 talk | cc |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 talk | mark |
| 29 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 know | conj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 understanding | case |
| 31 | understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 talk | obl |
| 32 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 understanding | acl |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 concerning | obj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 thing | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 thing | cc |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 thing | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 thing | cop |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 thing | det |
| 39 | very | very | ADV | _ | 40 sensible | advmod |
| 40 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 thing | amod |
| 41 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 spoke | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 spoke | cc |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 spoke | nsubj |
| 45 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 46 | joyously | joyously | ADV | _ | 45 spoke | advmod |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 cleverly | cc |
| 48 | cleverly | cleverly | ADV | _ | 46 joyously | conj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 it | case |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 cleverly | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | God | upon God's creation; as a great sum in arithmetic | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon creation=Theme | ||||
| 2 | subtract | participle | God not said here | vn multiply-108-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | multiply | participle | God not said here | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | try | past | God not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | God not said here | searcher | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | talk | to-infinitive | God not said here | with understanding | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with understanding=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | concern | gerund | understanding not said here | searcher | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | is a | past | that | a sensible thing | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | speak speech: other | past | God | joyously property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 10 | create | God | nom creation «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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