Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 166
He who could do this could conjure all the world before him.
Who acts: house, this · What happens: do, conjure · To what, where: world
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, this), 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 | 4 do | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 conjure | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 conjure | aux |
| 7 | conjure | conjure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 do | ccomp |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 world | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 conjure | obj |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 conjure | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | house | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | conjure | could | this | all world | before house | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Result |
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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