Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 34

It described these spectacles as possessing a wonderful power; if any one put them on in a large assembly the people appeared like cards, and the future events of ensuing years could be easily foretold by them.

Who acts: poem, people, Spectacles · What happens: describe, possess, put on, appear, ensue, foretell · To what, where: spectacles, wonderful power, one, large assembly, future events

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poem, people, Spectacles), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 described	nsubj
2	described	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 spectacles	det
4	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 described	obj
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 possessing	mark
6	possessing	possess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 described	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 power	det
8	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 power	amod
9	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 possessing	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 put	mark
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obj
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 described	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 put	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	14 put	compound:prt
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 assembly	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 assembly	det
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 assembly	amod
20	assembly	assembly	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 people	det
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 appeared	nsubj
23	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 assembly	acl:relcl
24	like	like	ADP	_	25 cards	case
25	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 appeared	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 foretold	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 foretold	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 events	det
29	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 events	amod
30	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 foretold	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 years	case
32	ensuing	ensue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 years	amod
33	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 events	nmod
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 foretold	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 foretold	aux:pass
36	easily	easily	ADV	_	37 foretold	advmod
37	foretold	foretell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 described	conj
38	by	by	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 foretold	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 described	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	describe	past	poem	this spectacles			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent spectacle=Theme
2	possess	gerund	poem not said here	a wonderful power			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot power=Theme
3	put on a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	poem not said here	any one	a large assembly		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent one=Asset they=Goal
4	appear	past	the people	a large assembly not said here		like cards	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location assembly=Theme
5	ensue	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	foretell	could · passive	Spectacles = spectacle	the future events of ensuing years		easily property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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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