Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 25

Was she thinking, perchance, how the fishes were richly clothed in gold, how they lived calmly and peacefully in their crystal world, how they were regularly fed, and yet how much happier they might be if they were free?

Who acts: light, hearts · What happens: think, clothe, live, feed, be · To what, where: fishes, gold, crystal world, hearts

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, hearts), 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thinking	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thinking	nsubj
3	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 perchance	punct
5	perchance	perchance	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thinking	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 clothed	punct
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 clothed	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fishes	det
9	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 clothed	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 clothed	aux:pass
11	richly	richly	ADV	_	12 clothed	advmod
12	clothed	clothe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thinking	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 gold	case
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clothed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lived	punct
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 lived	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lived	nsubj
18	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 clothed	advcl
19	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	18 lived	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 peacefully	cc
21	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	19 calmly	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 world	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 world	nmod:poss
24	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 world	amod
25	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lived	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fed	punct
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 fed	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fed	nsubj:pass
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fed	aux:pass
30	regularly	regularly	ADV	_	31 fed	advmod
31	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 world	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 happier	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 happier	cc
34	yet	yet	ADV	_	37 happier	advmod
35	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	36 much	advmod
36	much	much	ADV	_	37 happier	advmod
37	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 lived	conj
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 free	nsubj
39	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 free	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 free	cop
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 free	mark
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 free	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 free	cop
44	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 happier	parataxis
45	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 thinking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	light				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	clothe	past · passive		the fishes	gold	richly property	vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	live	past	hearts = heart		hearts's crystal world	calmly property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location
4	feed	past · passive		hearts = heart		regularly property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
5	is a condition, not said to happen	might	hearts = heart			free 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: «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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