Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 35

The idea struck him that he should very much like to have such a pair of spectacles; for, if used rightly, they would perhaps enable him to see into the hearts of people, which he thought would be more interesting than to know what was going to happen next year; for future events would be sure to show themselves, but the hearts of people never. "

Who acts: idea, Spectacles, Hospital, people, future events · What happens: not strike, have, use, enable, see, think · To what, where: Hospital, pair, hearts, events · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (idea, Spectacles, Hospital, people), 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	2 idea	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 struck	nsubj
3	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 struck	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 have	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADV	_	12 have	advmod
10	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 have	mark
11	to	to	PART	_	12 have	mark
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 struck	advcl
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 pair	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pair	det
15	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 spectacles	case
17	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pair	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 enable	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 used	mark
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 used	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 used	mark
22	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 enable	advcl
23	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	22 used	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 used	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 enable	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 enable	aux
27	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	28 enable	advmod
28	enable	enable	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 interesting	csubj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 enable	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 see	mark
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 enable	xcomp
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 hearts	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hearts	det
34	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 see	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 people	case
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 hearts	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 thought	punct
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 thought	nsubj
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 thought	nsubj
40	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 people	acl:relcl
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 interesting	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 interesting	cop
43	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	44 interesting	advmod
44	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 struck	parataxis
45	than	than	SCONJ	_	47 know	mark
46	to	to	PART	_	47 know	mark
47	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 interesting	csubj
48	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	50 going	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 going	aux
50	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 know	ccomp
51	to	to	PART	_	52 happen	mark
52	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 going	xcomp
53	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 year	amod
54	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 happen	obl:unmarked
55	;	;	PUNCT	_	61 sure	punct
56	for	for	SCONJ	_	61 sure	mark
57	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 events	amod
58	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 sure	nsubj
59	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 sure	aux
60	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	61 sure	cop
61	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 struck	parataxis
62	to	to	PART	_	63 show	mark
63	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 sure	xcomp
64	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	63 show	obj
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 hearts	punct
66	but	but	CCONJ	_	68 hearts	cc
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 hearts	det
68	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 struck	obl
69	of	of	ADP	_	70 people	case
70	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 hearts	nmod
71	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 struck	advmod
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 struck	punct
73	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not strike	past	the idea	Hospital			the hearts of people obl	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
2	have	should	idea	such pair of spectacles				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient
3	use a condition, not said to happen	participle	Spectacles = spectacle not said here				rightly property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	enable	would	Spectacles = spectacle	Hospital			perhaps property	tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive	Hospital not said here		the hearts of people			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	think speech: other	past	people					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	would					interesting property	tree rules
8	know	to-infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	go	past · progressive						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	happen	to-infinitive				year		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	is	would	future events				sure property	tree rules
12	show	to-infinitive	future events not said here	events = event				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient

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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