Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 71
His mental powers were not strong enough to discern the treasures which he had been destined to discover.
Who acts: mental powers · What happens: not be, discern, destine, discover · To what, where: treasures
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mental powers), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 powers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 powers | amod |
| 3 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 strong | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 strong | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 strong | advmod |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 strong | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 discern | mark |
| 9 | discern | discern | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 strong | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 treasures | det |
| 11 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 discern | obj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 destined | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 destined | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 destined | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 destined | aux:pass |
| 16 | destined | destine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 treasures | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 discover | mark |
| 18 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 destined | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Care's mental powers | enough, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | discern | to-infinitive | Care's mental powers not said here | the treasures | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer treasure=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | destine | past · perfect · passive | the treasures | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | discover | to-infinitive | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=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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