Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 29

To her it seemed most wonderful and beautiful to hear that the flowers of the land should have fragrance, and not those below the sea; that the trees of the forest should be green; and that the fishes among the trees could sing so sweetly, that it was quite a pleasure to hear them.

Who acts: it, flowers, trees, fishes · What happens: seem, hear, have, be, sing · To what, where: shadow, fragrance, pleasure, trees · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (it, flowers, trees, fishes), 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 her	case
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seemed	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 wonderful	advmod
6	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seemed	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 beautiful	cc
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wonderful	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hear	mark
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 beautiful	advcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flowers	det
13	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 land	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 land	det
16	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flowers	nmod
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hear	ccomp
19	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 those	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 those	cc
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 those	advmod
23	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 wonderful	conj
24	below	below	ADP	_	26 sea	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sea	det
26	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 those	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 green	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 green	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 trees	det
30	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 green	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 forest	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 forest	det
33	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 trees	nmod
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 green	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 green	cop
36	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seemed	conj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 sing	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 sing	cc
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 sing	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 fishes	det
41	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 sing	nsubj
42	among	among	ADP	_	44 trees	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 trees	det
44	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 fishes	nmod
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 sing	aux
46	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seemed	parataxis
47	so	so	ADV	_	48 sweetly	advmod
48	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	46 sing	advmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 pleasure	punct
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 pleasure	mark
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 pleasure	expl
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 pleasure	cop
53	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	55 pleasure	det:predet
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 pleasure	det
55	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sing	conj
56	to	to	PART	_	57 hear	mark
57	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 pleasure	csubj
58	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 hear	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	it		shadow	wonderful property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	hear	to-infinitive					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	have	should	the flowers of the land	fragrance			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragrance=Patient
4	is	should	the trees of the forest			green property	tree rules
5	sing speech: express	could	the fishes among the trees			sweetly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
6	is a	past	the fishes among the trees not said here	quite pleasure			tree rules
7	hear	to-infinitive		trees = tree			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=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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