Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 12

He examined and tested the plant, but it did not belong to his system of botany, nor could he possibly find out to what class it did belong. "

Who acts: professor, knowledge · What happens: examine, test, not belong, find out, belong · To what, where: plant, class

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (professor, knowledge), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 examined	nsubj
2	examined	examine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tested	cc
4	tested	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 examined	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plant	det
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tested	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 belong	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 belong	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 belong	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 belong	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 belong	advmod
12	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 examined	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 system	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 system	nmod:poss
15	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 belong	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 botany	case
17	botany	botany	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 system	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 find	punct
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	23 find	cc
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 find	aux
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 find	nsubj
22	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	23 find	advmod
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 examined	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 find	compound:prt
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 class	case
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 class	nsubj
27	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	obl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 belong	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 belong	aux
30	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 class	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 examined	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 examined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	examine	past	professor			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	test	past	professor not said here	the plant		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme
3	not belong	past · do-support	knowledge		to professor's system of botany	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	find out	could	professor		to class; possibly property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	belong	past · do-support	knowledge	class not said here		tree rules

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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