Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 33

The difference is this, the poet's intellectual memory is better; he seizes upon an idea or a sentiment, until he can embody it, clearly and plainly in words, which the others cannot do.

Who acts: difference, grass, others · What happens: be, seize, embody, not do · To what, where: memory, words

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (difference, grass, others), 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 difference	det
2	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 better	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 better	cop
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 better	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 better	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 poet	det
7	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 memory	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 poet	case
9	intellectual	intellectual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 memory	amod
10	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 better	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 better	cop
12	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 seizes	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seizes	nsubj
15	seizes	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 better	parataxis
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 idea	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 idea	det
18	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seizes	obl
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 sentiment	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sentiment	det
21	sentiment	sentiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 idea	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 embody	punct
23	until	until	SCONJ	_	26 embody	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 embody	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 embody	aux
26	embody	embody	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 seizes	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 embody	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 clearly	punct
29	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	26 embody	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 plainly	cc
31	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	29 clearly	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 words	case
33	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 embody	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 do	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 do	obj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 others	det
37	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 do	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 do	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 do	advmod
40	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 words	acl:relcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the difference			good property	tree rules
2	seize	present	grass			upon a idea or a sentiment	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	embody	can	grass	memory	words	clearly property	tree rules
4	not do	can	the others	words			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality

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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