Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 77
The love of a mother is greater and more powerful than I ever imagined.
Who acts: love, I · What happens: be, imagine, love · To what, where: mother
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, 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 (love, I), 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 love | det |
| 2 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 greater | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mother | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mother | det |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 love | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 greater | cop |
| 7 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 powerful | cc |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 powerful | advmod |
| 10 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 greater | conj |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 imagined | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 imagined | nsubj |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 imagined | advmod |
| 14 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 powerful | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 greater | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the love of a mother | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the love of a mother not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | imagine | past | I | ever | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | love | a mother | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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