Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 38

But in her heart the sting remained that the bird, that every animal that could fly, was much better off than she.

Who acts: sting, animal · What happens: remain, fly, be · To what, where: heart

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (sting, animal), 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	_	7 remained	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 heart	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 heart	nmod:poss
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remained	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sting	det
6	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remained	nsubj
7	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	ADP	_	10 bird	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remained	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 animal	punct
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 animal	det
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 animal	det
14	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bird	appos
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 fly	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 fly	aux
17	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 animal	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 better	punct
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 better	cop
20	much	much	ADV	_	21 better	advmod
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 remained	parataxis
22	off	off	ADP	_	21 better	compound:prt
23	than	than	ADP	_	24 she	case
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 better	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the sting	Dryad's heart	that the bird	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location
2	fly	could	that animal			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past			than Dryad; 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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