Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 128

You came to teach the sculptor that his work is but dust and clay only, an outward form made of a material that decays, and that what we should seek to obtain is the ethereal essence of mind and spirit.

Who acts: You, material, we, work, sculptor · What happens: come, teach, make, decay, seek, obtain · To what, where: sculptor, outward form, ethereal essence

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, material, we, work), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 teach	mark
4	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sculptor	det
6	sculptor	sculptor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teach	obj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 essence	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 work	nmod:poss
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 essence	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 but	cop
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 dust	cc
12	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 work	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 clay	cc
14	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 work	conj
15	only	only	ADV	_	14 clay	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 form	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 form	det
18	outward	outward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 form	amod
19	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 work	conj
20	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 form	acl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 material	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 material	det
23	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 decays	nsubj
25	decays	decay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 material	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seek	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 seek	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 seek	mark
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 seek	obj
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 seek	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 seek	aux
32	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 decays	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 obtain	mark
34	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 seek	xcomp
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 essence	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 essence	det
37	ethereal	ethereal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 essence	amod
38	essence	essence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sculptor	nmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 mind	case
40	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 essence	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 spirit	cc
42	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 mind	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	You			tree rules
2	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	You not said here	the sculptor		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sculptor=Recipient
3	make	participle		a outward form not said here	of a material	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	decay	present	a material			vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	seek	should	we			tree rules
6	obtain not said to happen	to-infinitive	we not said here			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
7	is a	present	sculptor's work but dust and clay and a outward form	the ethereal essence	of mind and spirit	tree rules
8	work		sculptor			nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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