Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 18
They loved each other much more than the best child can love its father and mother.
Who acts: people, best child · What happens: love · To what, where: each, father
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, best child), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 2 loved | obj |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 each | fixed |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 loved | obj |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 love | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 child | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 child | amod |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 love | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 love | aux |
| 12 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 more | advcl |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 love | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 mother | cc |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 father | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | people | each | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | can | the best child | child's father and mother | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus |
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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