Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 115

They were both of opinion that the story contained many points like their own, and these similarities they liked best.

Who acts: flowers, story · What happens: be, contain, like · To what, where: many points, similarities

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, story), 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	5 opinion	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 opinion	cop
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 opinion	det
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 opinion	case
5	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 contained	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 contained	nsubj
9	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 opinion	advcl
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 points	amod
11	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 contained	obj
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 own	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 own	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 points	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 similarities	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 similarities	cc
17	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 similarities	det
18	similarities	similarity	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 opinion	conj
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 liked	nsubj
20	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 similarities	acl:relcl
21	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 liked	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 opinion	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	flowers = flower		of both opinion and this similarities	tree rules
2	contain	past	the story	many points	like flowers's own	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot point=Theme
3	like	past	flowers = flower	this similarities not said here	well property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot similarity=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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