Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 101

Molly had told him that she loved him--loved him more than all the splendors of Weimar.

Who acts: Molly · What happens: tell, love · To what, where: Anthony · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Molly), 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	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	aux
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 loved	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 loved	nsubj
7	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 loved	obj
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 loved	punct
10	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 loved	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 loved	obj
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 loved	advmod
13	than	than	ADP	_	16 splendors	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 splendors	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 splendors	det
16	splendors	splendor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 more	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Weimar	case
18	Weimar	Weimar	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 splendors	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	Molly		Anthony	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	love	past	Molly	Anthony		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	love	past	Molly not said here	Anthony		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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