Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 50
There was so much that she wished to know, and her sisters were unable to answer all her questions.
Who acts: water, sisters · What happens: be, wish, know, answer, question · To what, where: questions
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, sisters), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 2 was | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 wished | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wished | nsubj |
| 7 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 know | mark |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wished | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 unable | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 unable | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 unable | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 unable | cop |
| 15 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 was | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 answer | mark |
| 17 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 unable | xcomp |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 questions | det:predet |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 questions | nmod:poss |
| 20 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 answer | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wish | past | water | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | water not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | water's sisters | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | water's sisters not said here | water's questions | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | question | water | nom question «communication 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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