Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 76

Then he unfolded to them both the beauties of Nature, in all her works; he pointed out to them how, in the scale of creation, inanimate matter was inferior to animate nature; the plant above the mineral, the animal above the plant, and man above them all.

Who acts: smile, inanimate matter, Nature · What happens: unfold, point out, be, animate, work · To what, where: copies, works, nature

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 (smile, inanimate matter, Nature), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 unfolded	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 unfolded	nsubj
3	unfolded	unfold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 unfolded	obj
6	both	both	CCONJ	_	8 beauties	cc:preconj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beauties	det
8	beauties	beauty	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 them	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Nature	case
10	Nature	Nature	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 beauties	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 works	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 works	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 works	det:predet
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 works	nmod:poss
15	works	work	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 unfolded	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 pointed	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pointed	nsubj
18	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 unfolded	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 pointed	compound:prt
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pointed	obl
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 pointed	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 scale	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 scale	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 scale	det
26	scale	scale	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pointed	parataxis
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 creation	case
28	creation	creation	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 scale	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 inferior	punct
30	inanimate	inanimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 matter	amod
31	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 inferior	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 inferior	cop
33	inferior	inferior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 scale	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	35 animate	mark
35	animate	animate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 inferior	csubj
36	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 animate	obj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 plant	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 plant	det
39	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 unfolded	parataxis
40	above	above	ADP	_	42 mineral	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 mineral	det
42	mineral	mineral	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 plant	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 animal	punct
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 animal	det
45	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 plant	appos
46	above	above	ADP	_	48 plant	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 plant	det
48	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 animal	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 man	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 man	cc
51	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 plant	appos
52	above	above	ADP	_	53 them	case
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 man	nmod
54	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	53 them	nmod:unmarked
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 unfolded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unfold	past	smile	copies = copy		Nature's works	then		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	point out	past	smile		copies = copy				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
3	is	past	inanimate matter					inferior property	tree rules
4	animate	to-infinitive		nature					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nature=Patient
5	work		Nature						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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