Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 72

She felt very low-spirited, because her count-child had shown no inclination to speak to her who loved him so well, and who had travelled so far to see him.

Who acts: subject, count child · What happens: feel, spirit, show, speak, love, travell · To what, where: inclination, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (subject, count 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	2 felt	advmod
4	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spirited	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 low	punct
6	spirited	spirit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 felt	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shown	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 shown	mark
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 child	nmod:poss
10	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 child	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 count	punct
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shown	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shown	aux
14	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 felt	conj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 inclination	det
16	inclination	inclination	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shown	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 speak	mark
18	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 shown	xcomp
19	to	to	SCONJ	_	22 loved	mark
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 loved	nmod:poss
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 loved	nsubj
22	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 speak	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 loved	obj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 well	advmod
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 loved	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 travelled	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 travelled	cc
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 travelled	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 travelled	aux
30	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 felt	conj
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 far	advmod
32	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 travelled	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 see	mark
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 travelled	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 see	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	subject			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	spirit	participle	subject not said here			tree rules
3	show	past · perfect	subject's count child	no inclination		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent inclination=Recipient clause=Topic
4	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	subject's count child not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	love	past		child	well property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	travell	past · perfect			far property	tree rules
7	see	to-infinitive		child		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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