Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 73
Oh, how gladly she would have shaken off all this grandeur, and laid aside the heavy wreath!
Who acts: Pride · What happens: shake off, lay · To what, where: grandeur
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 (Pride), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 shaken | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 gladly | advmod |
| 4 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 8 shaken | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shaken | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 shaken | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 shaken | aux |
| 8 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 grandeur | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 grandeur | det:predet |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 grandeur | det |
| 12 | grandeur | grandeur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shaken | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 laid | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 laid | cc |
| 15 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 shaken | conj |
| 16 | aside | aside | ADP | _ | 19 wreath | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wreath | det |
| 18 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wreath | amod |
| 19 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laid | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 shaken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake off | would · perfect | Pride | all grandeur | gladly property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent grandeur=Patient | |||
| 2 | lay | participle | Pride not said here | aside the heavy wreath | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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