Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 30

Then sometimes the public applauded too much, or too little, to please him. "

Who acts: public · What happens: applaud, please · To what, where: much, public

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (public), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 applauded	advmod
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 applauded	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 public	det
4	public	public	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 applauded	nsubj
5	applauded	applaud	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 applauded	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 little	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 little	cc
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 little	advmod
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 applauded	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 please	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 please	mark
14	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 applauded	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 please	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 please	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 please	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	applaud	past	the public	much			then	sometimes property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus
2	please	to-infinitive	the public not said here	public					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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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