Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 16

Neither is it the magic flower of Science, to obtain which wondrous flower a man devotes many an hour of his fresh young life in sleepless nights, in a lonely chamber."

Who acts: Neither, wondrous, man · What happens: be, obtain, flower, devote · To what, where: magic flower

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Neither, wondrous, man), 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	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	6 flower	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 flower	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flower	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flower	det
5	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flower	amod
6	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Science	case
8	Science	Science	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 flower	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 obtain	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 obtain	mark
11	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 flower	parataxis
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 flower	obj
13	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 flower	nsubj
14	flower	flower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 obtain	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 devotes	nsubj
17	devotes	devote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 flower	acl:relcl
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hour	amod
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hour	det
20	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 devotes	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 life	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 life	nmod:poss
23	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 life	amod
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 life	amod
25	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hour	nmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 nights	case
27	sleepless	sleepless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 nights	amod
28	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 devotes	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 chamber	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 chamber	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 chamber	det
32	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 chamber	amod
33	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nights	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flower	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 flower	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Neither	the magic flower		of Science	tree rules
2	obtain	to-infinitive					tree rules
3	flower	present	wondrous				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme
4	devote	present	a man		hour; night		vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP 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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