Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 37

They read deep and learned books to him, and then the lightest and most trifling that could be found, but all to no purpose.

Who acts: plants · What happens: read, learn, trifle, find · To what, where: books, king, lightest

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 (plants), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 read	nsubj
2	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	deep	deep	ADV	_	2 read	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 learned	cc
5	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 read	conj
6	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 learned	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 learned	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 found	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 found	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 lightest	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lightest	det
13	lightest	light	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 found	nsubj:pass
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 trifling	cc
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 trifling	advmod
16	trifling	trifle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 lightest	conj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 found	nsubj:pass
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 found	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 found	aux:pass
20	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 read	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 all	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 all	cc
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 found	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 purpose	case
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 purpose	det
26	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 all	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	read	past	plants = plant			deep property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	learn	past	plants = plant not said here	books	king		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic
3	trifle	gerund					vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	find	could · passive		the lightest		all obl	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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