Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 60

Their requirements were not many, they were very sociable, and full of affection for their children, so much so that each mother considered her own child the most beautiful and clever of them all.

Who acts: requirements, mother, earwigs · What happens: not be, be, consider, require · To what, where: own child

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (requirements, mother, earwigs), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 requirements	nmod:poss
2	requirements	requirement	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 many	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 many	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sociable	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sociable	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sociable	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 sociable	advmod
10	sociable	sociable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 many	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 full	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 full	cc
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 many	parataxis
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 affection	case
15	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 full	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 children	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 children	nmod:poss
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 full	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 considered	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADV	_	26 considered	advmod
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 considered	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	25 mother	det
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 considered	nsubj
26	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 many	parataxis
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 child	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 child	amod
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 considered	obj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 beautiful	det
31	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	32 beautiful	advmod
32	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 considered	xcomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 clever	cc
34	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 beautiful	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 clever	obl
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 them	nmod:unmarked
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 many	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	earwigs's requirements		many property	tree rules
2	is	past	requirements = requirement		sociable property	tree rules
3	consider	past	each mother	mother's own child	beautiful property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent child=Attribute
4	require		earwigs = earwig			nom requirement «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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