Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 25

"The beggar there," said her husband, "has joys of his own which seem to him great, and cause him as much pleasure as a king would find in the magnificence of his palace.

Who acts: beggar, joys, king · What happens: say, have, seem, cause, find · To what, where: husband, joys, beggar, magnificence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beggar, joys, king), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beggar	det
3	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 beggar	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 beggar	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 beggar	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 husband	nmod:poss
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 has	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 has	punct
12	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
13	joys	joy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 has	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 own	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 own	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 joys	nmod
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 seem	nsubj
18	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 joys	acl:relcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seem	obl
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 seem	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cause	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cause	cc
24	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 has	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cause	obj
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 pleasure	amod
28	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cause	obj
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 find	mark
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 king	det
31	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 find	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 find	aux
33	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 cause	advcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 magnificence	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 magnificence	det
36	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 find	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 palace	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 palace	nmod:poss
39	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 magnificence	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the beggar	many's husband				tree rules
2	have in a quote	present		joys of beggar's own				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Patient
3	seem in a quote	present	joys of beggar's own		beggar		great property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	cause in a quote	infinitive		beggar				vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer he=Theme pleasure=Eventuality
5	find in a quote	would	a king			the magnificence of king's palace		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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