Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 79
She knew the prince's thoughts better than any of the others.
Who acts: mermaid, prince · What happens: know, think
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 (mermaid, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 prince | case |
| 6 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 better | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 knew | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 any | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 better | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 others | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 others | det |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 any | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | mermaid | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | think | the prince | nom thought «cognition 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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