Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 27
Nothing gave her so much pleasure as to hear about the world above the sea.
Who acts: Nothing · What happens: give, hear · To what, where: much pleasure, shadow, sea
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 (Nothing), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pleasure | amod |
| 6 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 hear | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hear | mark |
| 9 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 gave | advcl |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hear | obl |
| 13 | above | above | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hear | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Nothing | much pleasure | shadow | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient pleasure=Theme | |||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | Nothing not said here | the sea | about the world | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about world=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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