Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 151

He would have liked this very much during his life, as well as the poems about him in the papers, for he liked nothing so well as to be talked of.

Who acts: widow · What happens: like, talk · To what, where: this, papers, nothing

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow), 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	4 liked	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 liked	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 liked	aux
4	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 liked	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	4 liked	advmod
8	during	during	ADP	_	10 life	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 life	nmod:poss
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 liked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 poems	punct
12	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	16 poems	cc
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 as	fixed
14	as	as	ADP	_	12 as	fixed
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 poems	det
16	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 liked	obl
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 poems	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 papers	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 papers	det
21	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 liked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 liked	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 liked	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 liked	nsubj
25	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 liked	conj
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 liked	obj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 well	advmod
28	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 liked	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 talked	mark
30	to	to	PART	_	32 talked	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 talked	aux:pass
32	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 liked	advcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	32 talked	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	would · perfect	widow	this	the papers	during widow's life	the poems about street obl	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot this=Theme
2	like	past	widow	nothing			well property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
3	talk	to-infinitive · passive	widow not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/151/