Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 48

She grew more and more fond of human beings, and wished more and more to be able to wander about with those whose world seemed to be so much larger than her own.

Who acts: water, those · What happens: grow, wish, be, wander, seem

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, those), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 grew	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fond	cc
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 fond	advmod
6	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grew	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 beings	case
8	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beings	amod
9	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fond	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wished	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wished	cc
12	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	conj
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 wished	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 more	cc
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 more	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	18 able	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 able	cop
18	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wished	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 wander	mark
20	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 able	xcomp
21	about	about	ADV	_	20 wander	advmod
22	with	with	SCONJ	_	26 seemed	mark
23	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 seemed	nsubj
24	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	25 world	nmod:poss
25	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 those	nmod
26	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wander	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	31 larger	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 larger	cop
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 much	advmod
30	much	much	ADV	_	31 larger	advmod
31	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 seemed	xcomp
32	than	than	ADP	_	34 own	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 own	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 larger	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	grow	past	water		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wish	past	water not said here		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is	to-infinitive	water not said here	able property	tree rules
4	wander	to-infinitive	water not said here	about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	seem	past	those		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	is	to-infinitive	those not said here	than water's own; large property	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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