Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 12
She was, however, deserving of very great praise, especially for her care of the little sea-princesses, her grand-daughters.
Who acts: mother, little sea princesses · What happens: deserve, care
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, little sea princesses), 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 | 6 deserving | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 deserving | aux |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 deserving | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 deserving | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 deserving | punct |
| 6 | deserving | deserve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 praise | case |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 great | advmod |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 praise | amod |
| 10 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deserving | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 care | punct |
| 12 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 15 care | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 care | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 care | nmod:poss |
| 15 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deserving | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 princesses | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princesses | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 princesses | amod |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 princesses | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 sea | punct |
| 21 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 care | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 daughters | punct |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 24 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 daughters | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 grand | punct |
| 26 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 princesses | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 deserving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deserve | past · progressive | mother | of great praise; for mother's care of the little sea princesses and mother's grand daughters; however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | care | the little sea princesses and mother's grand daughters | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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