Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 46

She must be nursed and waited upon, and there was no one whose duty it was so much as Karen's.

Who acts: one, duty · What happens: nurse, wait, be · To what, where: Karen, duty

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, duty), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nursed	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 nursed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 nursed	aux:pass
4	nursed	nurse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 waited	cc
6	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 nursed	conj
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 waited	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 duty	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 was	cc
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 was	expl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 duty	cop
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 duty	nsubj
14	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	15 duty	nmod:poss
15	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nursed	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 much	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 much	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 duty	nmod
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 Karen	case
21	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 much	nmod
22	's	's	PART	_	21 Karen	case
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 nursed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	nurse	must · passive		Karen		vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
2	wait	participle				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	no one	duty		tree rules
4	is	past	duty		as Karen; much property	tree rules

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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