Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 112

There was nothing to envy here, so they all showed a great deal of pity, even the two Chinese. "

Who acts: nothing, passions · What happens: be, envy, show, deal · To what, where: great deal, pity

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, passions), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 was	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 envy	mark
5	envy	envy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nothing	acl
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 envy	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 showed	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 showed	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 showed	nsubj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 they	det
11	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 deal	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 deal	amod
14	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 showed	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 pity	case
16	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 deal	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Chinese	punct
18	even	even	ADV	_	21 Chinese	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Chinese	det
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 Chinese	nummod
21	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 showed	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	nothing		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	envy	to-infinitive	nothing not said here		here	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	show	past	passions = passion	a great deal of pity		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent deal=Recipient
4	deal			pity		nom deal «act 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: «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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