Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 6
How delightful it must be to live there," said Babette, who again felt the greatest wish to visit the island; and an opportunity offered to gratify her wish at once, for on the shore lay a boat, and the rope by which it was moored could be very easily loosened.
Who acts: island, Babette, rope · What happens: be, say, feel, visit, offer, gratify · To what, where: greatest wish, island, opportunity, wish, boat, shore · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (island, Babette, rope), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 delightful | advmod |
| 2 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 live | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 live | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 live | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 live | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 live | mark |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 live | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 live | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 live | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 felt | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 felt | nsubj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 felt | advmod |
| 16 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Babette | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wish | det |
| 18 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 wish | amod |
| 19 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 felt | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 visit | mark |
| 21 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 felt | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 island | det |
| 23 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 visit | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 and | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 opportunity | det |
| 27 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 and | appos |
| 28 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 opportunity | acl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 gratify | mark |
| 30 | gratify | gratify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 offered | xcomp |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 wish | nmod:poss |
| 32 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gratify | obj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 once | case |
| 34 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 30 gratify | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 lay | punct |
| 36 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 40 lay | mark |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 shore | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 shore | det |
| 39 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 lay | obl |
| 40 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 gratify | parataxis |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 boat | det |
| 42 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 lay | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 loosened | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 loosened | cc |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 rope | det |
| 46 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 loosened | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | by | by | ADP | _ | 48 which | case |
| 48 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 moored | obl |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 moored | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 moored | aux:pass |
| 51 | moored | moor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 rope | acl:relcl |
| 52 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 56 loosened | aux |
| 53 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 56 loosened | aux:pass |
| 54 | very | very | ADV | _ | 55 easily | advmod |
| 55 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 56 loosened | advmod |
| 56 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 lay | conj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | island | there | live property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Babette | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | feel in a quote | past | Babette | the greatest wish | again | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme | |||
| 4 | visit in a quote | to-infinitive | Babette not said here | the island | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | offer in a quote | participle | a opportunity not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | gratify not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Babette's wish | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wish=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | lay in a quote | present | a boat | the shore | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boat=Theme on shore=Destination | ||||
| 8 | moor in a quote | past · passive | the rope | island | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination | ||||
| 9 | loosen in a quote | could · passive | the rope | easily property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 10 | wish in a quote | Babette | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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