Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 22

She was a strange child, quiet and thoughtful; and while her sisters would be delighted with the wonderful things which they obtained from the wrecks of vessels, she cared for nothing but her pretty red flowers, like the sun, excepting a beautiful marble statue.

Who acts: sun, sisters · What happens: be, delight, obtain, care, except, wreck · To what, where: sisters, wonderful things, wrecks, beautiful marble statue, vessels

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 (sun, sisters), 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	7 quiet	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 quiet	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 quiet	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 quiet	punct
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thoughtful	cc
9	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 quiet	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 delighted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 delighted	cc
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 delighted	mark
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sisters	nmod:poss
14	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 delighted	nsubj:pass
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 delighted	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 delighted	aux:pass
17	delighted	delight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 quiet	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 things	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 things	det
20	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 things	amod
21	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 delighted	obl
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 obtained	obj
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 obtained	nsubj
24	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 things	acl:relcl
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 wrecks	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wrecks	det
27	wrecks	wreck	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 obtained	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 vessels	case
29	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 wrecks	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cared	punct
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cared	nsubj
32	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 quiet	parataxis
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 nothing	case
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 cared	obl
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 flowers	cc
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 flowers	nmod:poss
37	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	38 red	advmod
38	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 flowers	amod
39	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 nothing	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 sun	punct
41	like	like	ADP	_	43 sun	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 sun	det
43	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cared	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 excepting	punct
45	excepting	except	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 cared	advcl
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 statue	det
47	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 statue	amod
48	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 statue	amod
49	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 excepting	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 quiet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	sun			quiet property	tree rules
2	be		sun not said here				tree rules
3	delight	would · passive		sun's sisters		with the wonderful things	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	obtain	past	sisters = sister	the wonderful things	the wrecks of vessels		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent which=Theme from wreck=Source
5	care	past	sun			for nothing; like the sun	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for nothing=Theme
6	except	gerund	sun not said here	a beautiful marble statue			tree rules
7	wreck			vessels			nom wreck «state transitive»: of=patient

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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