Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 26

My mother prefers one that is deep and moral; but my father likes something funny, to make him laugh."

Who acts: mother, father · What happens: prefer, be, like, make, laugh · To what, where: one, something, father

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, father), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prefers	nsubj
3	prefers	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 prefers	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 deep	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 deep	cop
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	acl:relcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 moral	cc
9	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deep	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 likes	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 likes	cc
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 likes	nsubj
14	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 prefers	parataxis
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 likes	obj
16	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 something	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 make	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 make	mark
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 likes	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 make	obj
21	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 make	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 prefers	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 prefers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prefer	present	My mother	one		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
2	is	present			deep property	tree rules
3	be					tree rules
4	like	present	my father	something		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme
5	make	to-infinitive	my father not said here	father		tree rules
6	laugh	infinitive	father not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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