Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 48
But what could she find more charming and beautiful?
Who acts: dust · What happens: find · To what, where: charming
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dust), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 find | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 find | obj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 charming | advmod |
| 7 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 beautiful | cc |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 charming | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | could | dust | charming | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme charming=Attribute |
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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