Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 2

The youngest of them are quite satisfied with "kribble, krabble," or such nonsense, and think it very grand; but the elder ones want something with a deeper meaning, or at least something about their own family.

Who acts: youngest, elder ones · What happens: be, think, want · To what, where: nonsense, something

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, elder ones), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youngest	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 satisfied	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 youngest	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 satisfied	cop
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 satisfied	advmod
7	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 kribble	case
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 kribble	punct
10	kribble	kribble	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 satisfied	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 krabble	punct
12	krabble	krabble	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kribble	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kribble	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 kribble	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 nonsense	cc
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 nonsense	amod
17	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kribble	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 think	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 think	cc
20	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 satisfied	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 think	obj
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 grand	advmod
23	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 think	xcomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 want	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 want	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ones	det
27	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ones	amod
28	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 want	nsubj
29	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 think	parataxis
30	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 want	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 meaning	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 meaning	det
33	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 meaning	amod
34	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 want	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 something	punct
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 something	cc
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 least	case
38	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 something	nmod
39	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 meaning	appos
40	about	about	ADP	_	43 family	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 family	nmod:poss
42	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 family	amod
43	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 something	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 satisfied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the youngest of storks		with kribble and krabble or such nonsense; satisfied property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	infinitive		nonsense	grand property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	want	present	the elder ones	something	with a deeper meaning	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme

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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