Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 96

And what joy and blessing it would spread around if he could by any means be cured!

Who acts: joy, any · What happens: bless, spread, mean, cure · To what, where: joy

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, any), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 spread	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 spread	obj
3	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spread	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 blessing	cc
5	blessing	bless	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 joy	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blessing	obj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 spread	aux
8	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	around	around	ADP	_	12 could	case
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 could	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 could	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 spread	advcl
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	15 means	mark
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 means	nsubj
15	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 spread	advcl
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 cured	aux:pass
17	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 means	xcomp
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bless	gerund	joy not said here	joy	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	spread	would	joy		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme
3	mean	present	any		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	cure not said to happen	infinitive · passive	any not said here		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.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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