Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 77

He would certainly be glad to see her, and to hear what a long distance she had come for his sake, and to know how sorry they had been at home because he did not come back.

Who acts: Kay, Gerda, eyes · What happens: be, see, hear, come, know, not come back · To what, where: Gerda, long distance, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, Gerda, eyes), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 glad	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	aux
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 glad	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 glad	cop
5	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 glad	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hear	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hear	cc
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hear	mark
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 glad	conj
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 hear	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 distance	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 distance	amod
16	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 what	nsubj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 distance	acl:relcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 sake	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 sake	nmod:poss
22	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 know	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 know	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 know	mark
26	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hear	conj
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 sorry	advmod
28	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 know	xcomp
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 home	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 home	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 home	cop
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 home	case
33	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sorry	ccomp
34	because	because	SCONJ	_	38 come	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 come	nsubj
36	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 come	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 come	advmod
38	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hear	advcl
39	back	back	ADV	_	38 come	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	would	Kay			certainly, glad property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	Kay not said here	Gerda			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	hear	to-infinitive	Kay not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	come	past · perfect	Gerda	a long distance not said here		for Kay's sake	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme
5	know	to-infinitive	Kay not said here			sorry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past · perfect	eyes = eye		home		tree rules
7	not come back	past · do-support	Kay				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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