Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess, sentence 19

None but a real Princess could have had such a delicate sense of feeling.

Who acts: None · What happens: have, sense · To what, where: delicate sense, feeling

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Real Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (None), 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	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	8 had	nsubj
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 Princess	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Princess	amod
5	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 None	conj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 had	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	aux
8	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 sense	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sense	det
11	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sense	amod
12	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 feeling	case
14	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sense	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	could · perfect	None	such delicate sense of feeling					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient
2	sense			feeling					nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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