Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 200

That appeared to them to be really too much, but since all the people showed their love for the roses, they did not wish to be behindhand. "

Who acts: That, people, roses · What happens: appear, be, show, not wish, love · To what, where: roses, love, behindhand

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, people, roses), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 appeared	nsubj
2	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 appeared	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	9 much	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 much	cop
7	really	really	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 appeared	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 showed	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 showed	cc
12	since	since	SCONJ	_	16 showed	mark
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 people	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 showed	nsubj
16	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 appeared	conj
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 love	nmod:poss
18	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 showed	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 roses	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 roses	det
21	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 showed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wish	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wish	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 wish	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 wish	advmod
26	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 appeared	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	29 behindhand	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 behindhand	cop
29	behindhand	behindhand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wish	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 wish	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	appear	past	That		roses = rose		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	That not said here			much property	tree rules
3	show	past	all people	roses's love		for the roses	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent love=Recipient
4	not wish	past · do-support	roses = rose				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	is a	to-infinitive		behindhand			tree rules
6	love		roses = rose				nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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