Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 34

None of them longed so much for her turn to come as the youngest, she who had the longest time to wait, and who was so quiet and thoughtful.

Who acts: None, turn · What happens: long, come, have, wait, be

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 (None, turn), 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	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 longed	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 None	nmod
4	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	4 longed	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 turn	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 turn	nmod:poss
9	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 longed	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 come	mark
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 longed	advcl
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 youngest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 youngest	det
14	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 come	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 longed	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 time	det
20	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 time	amod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 wait	mark
23	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 time	acl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 quiet	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 quiet	cc
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 quiet	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 quiet	cop
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 quiet	advmod
29	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 had	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 thoughtful	cc
31	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 quiet	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 longed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	long	past	None		for turn's turn	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for turn=Theme
2	come	to-infinitive	None not said here		as the youngest	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	turn	time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	wait	to-infinitive	turn not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past			quiet property	tree rules
6	be					tree rules

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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