Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 27

His love increased the more, just because he could not get her; and that she should have been won by another, was the worst of all.

Who acts: love, boy · What happens: increase, not get, win, be, love · To what, where: more, bird

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love, boy), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 love	nmod:poss
2	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 increased	nsubj
3	increased	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 more	det
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 increased	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	12 get	advmod
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 get	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 get	advmod
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 increased	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 won	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 won	cc
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 won	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 won	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 won	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 won	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 won	aux:pass
21	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 increased	parataxis
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 another	case
23	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 won	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 worst	punct
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 worst	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 worst	det
27	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 increased	advcl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 all	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 worst	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 increased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	increase	past	boy's love	the more		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer more=Patient
2	not get	could	love	bird		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	win	should · perfect · passive		bird	by another	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	is	past	boy's love not said here		of all; bad property	tree rules
5	love		boy			nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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