Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 47

This was great sorrow to the little mermaid; she knew how much more sweetly she herself could sing once, and she thought, "Oh if he could only know that!

Who acts: This, sun, prince · What happens: be, know, sing, think · To what, where: great sorrow, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, sun, prince), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 sorrow	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sorrow	cop
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sorrow	amod
4	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 mermaid	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mermaid	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mermaid	amod
8	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sorrow	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 knew	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knew	nsubj
11	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sorrow	parataxis
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 sweetly	advmod
15	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	19 sing	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sing	nsubj
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 she	conj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 sing	aux
19	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 knew	ccomp
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 sing	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 thought	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 thought	nsubj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 knew	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 know	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 know	punct
27	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	32 know	discourse
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 know	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 know	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 know	aux
31	only	only	ADV	_	32 know	advmod
32	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 thought	ccomp
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 know	obj
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 sorrow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	great sorrow	to the little mermaid	tree rules
2	know	past	sun			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	sing speech: express	could	sun		once, sweetly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
4	think speech: other	past	sun			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	could	prince	that		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

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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