Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 33

However, each promised to tell the others what she saw on her first visit, and what she thought the most beautiful; for their grandmother could not tell them enough; there were so many things on which they wanted information.

Who acts: turn, grandmother, many things, things · What happens: promise, tell, see, think, not tell, be · To what, where: each, others, first visit, information, many things · 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 (turn, grandmother, many things, things), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 promised	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 promised	nsubj:pass
4	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 others	det
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	obj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 saw	obj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	ccomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 visit	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 visit	nmod:poss
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 visit	amod
15	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thought	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thought	cc
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 thought	obj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 thought	nsubj
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 promised	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 beautiful	det
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 beautiful	advmod
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thought	xcomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 tell	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 tell	mark
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 grandmother	nmod:poss
27	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tell	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 tell	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 tell	advmod
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	parataxis
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tell	iobj
32	enough	enough	ADV	_	30 tell	advmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 were	punct
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 were	expl
35	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 promised	parataxis
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 many	advmod
37	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 things	amod
38	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 were	nsubj
39	on	on	ADP	_	40 which	case
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 wanted	obl
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 wanted	nsubj
42	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 things	acl:relcl
43	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 wanted	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	participle · passive		each			however property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive		the others				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent other=Recipient clause=Topic
3	see	past	turn			turn's first visit		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	past	turn				beautiful property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
5	not tell speech: assert	could	others's grandmother		others = other		enough property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
6	be	past	many things			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	want	past	things = thing	information		many things		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot information=Theme
8	visit		turn					nom visit «act transitive»: poss=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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