Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 90

Why, she could tell stories, as many as you liked, on any subject.

Who acts: world, you · What happens: tell, like · To what, where: stories, subject · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, you), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 tell	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 many	punct
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 many	advmod
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tell	obl
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 liked	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 liked	nsubj
12	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 many	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 subject	punct
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 subject	case
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 subject	det
16	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 liked	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	world	stories				many obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	like	past	you	any subject					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme

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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