Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 1

There was once a woman who wished very much to have a little child, but she could not obtain her wish.

Who acts: woman · What happens: be, wish, have, not obtain · To what, where: little child, wish

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 woman	det
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wished	nsubj
7	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 woman	acl:relcl
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADV	_	7 wished	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 have	mark
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wished	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 child	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 child	amod
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 obtain	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 obtain	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 obtain	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 obtain	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 obtain	advmod
20	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	parataxis
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wish	nmod:poss
22	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 obtain	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a woman		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wish	past	a woman				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	have	to-infinitive	a woman not said here	a little child			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4	not obtain	could	woman	woman's wish			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme
5	wish		woman				nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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