Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 117

The man to whom the show belonged was quite delighted at having a doll who could dance of herself without being pulled by the wires; none of the other dolls could do this.

Who acts: show, man, doll, wires, none · What happens: belong, be, have, dance, pull, do · To what, where: doll, this

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (show, man, doll, wires), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 delighted	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 whom	case
4	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 man	nmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 show	det
6	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 belonged	nsubj
7	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 whom	acl:relcl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 delighted	cop
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 delighted	advmod
10	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	at	at	SCONJ	_	12 having	mark
12	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 delighted	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 doll	det
14	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 having	obj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 dance	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 dance	aux
17	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 doll	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 herself	case
19	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 dance	nmod
20	without	without	SCONJ	_	22 pulled	mark
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 pulled	aux:pass
22	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 having	advcl
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 wires	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wires	det
25	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pulled	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 do	punct
27	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	33 do	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 dolls	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 dolls	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 dolls	amod
31	dolls	doll	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 none	nmod
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 delighted	conj
34	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 do	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	belong	past	the show			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the man		delighted property	tree rules
3	have	gerund	the man not said here	a doll and dance		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doll=Patient
4	dance	could	a doll and dance		of show	tree rules
5	pull	gerund · passive	the wires			vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	do	could	none	this		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality

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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