Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 11

Their mother allowed them to look as much as they liked, because green is good for the eyes. "

Who acts: mother, Quack, green · What happens: allow, look, like, be · To what, where: Quack, much

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, Quack, green), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 allowed	nsubj
3	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 allowed	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 allowed	xcomp
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 look	obj
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 liked	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 liked	nsubj
11	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 much	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 good	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 good	mark
14	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 good	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 good	cop
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 allowed	parataxis
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 eyes	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 eyes	det
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 good	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 allowed	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 allowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	allow	past	Quack's mother	Quack		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	Quack not said here	much		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme much=Attribute
3	like	past	Quack			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is	present	green		for the eyes; good property	tree rules

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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