Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 89

The secret powers of nature are generally discovered in solitude, and did he not soon expect to find out the art of making the greatest of all good things--the art of making gold?

Who acts: shipbuilder, art · What happens: discover, not expect, find out, make · To what, where: secret powers, solitude, art, greatest, gold

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shipbuilder, art), 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 powers	det
2	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 powers	amod
3	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 discovered	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 nature	case
5	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 powers	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 discovered	aux:pass
7	generally	generally	ADV	_	8 discovered	advmod
8	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 solitude	case
10	solitude	solitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 discovered	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 expect	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 expect	cc
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 expect	aux
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 expect	nsubj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 expect	advmod
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 expect	advmod
17	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 discovered	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 find	mark
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 expect	xcomp
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 find	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 art	det
22	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	obj
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 making	mark
24	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 art	acl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 greatest	det
26	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 making	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 things	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 things	det
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 things	amod
30	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 greatest	obl
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 art	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 art	det
33	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 things	nmod
34	of	of	SCONJ	_	35 making	mark
35	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 art	acl
36	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 making	obj
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	discover	present · passive		the secret powers of nature	solitude	generally property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	not expect	past · do-support	shipbuilder			soon property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	find out not said to happen	to-infinitive	shipbuilder not said here	the art			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Topic
4	make	gerund	the art not said here	the greatest			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset great=Product
5	make	gerund	the art not said here	gold			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gold=Product

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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