Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 21

He sat down by her side and talked to her: he said her eyes were like beautiful dark lakes, in which the thoughts swam about like little mermaids, and he told her that her forehead was a snowy mountain, which contained splendid halls full of pictures.

Who acts: son, eyes, thoughts, forehead, snowy mountain · What happens: sit down, talk, say, be, swim, tell · To what, where: princess, snowy mountain, splendid halls · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, eyes, thoughts, forehead), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 side	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 side	nmod:poss
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 talked	cc
8	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 talked	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	parataxis
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eyes	nmod:poss
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lakes	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lakes	cop
17	like	like	ADP	_	20 lakes	case
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lakes	amod
19	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lakes	amod
20	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 said	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 swam	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 swam	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 thoughts	det
25	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 swam	nsubj
26	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
27	about	about	ADV	_	26 swam	advmod
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 mermaids	case
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mermaids	amod
30	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 swam	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 told	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 told	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 told	nsubj
34	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 told	iobj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 mountain	mark
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 forehead	nmod:poss
38	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 mountain	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 mountain	cop
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 mountain	det
41	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 mountain	amod
42	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 told	ccomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 contained	punct
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 contained	nsubj
45	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 mountain	acl:relcl
46	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 halls	amod
47	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 contained	obj
48	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 halls	amod
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 pictures	case
50	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 full	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	son			by princess's side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location
2	talk	past	son not said here		princess		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	son				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	princess's eyes			like beautiful dark lakes	tree rules
5	swim	past	the thoughts			like little mermaids; about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Trajectory
6	tell speech: assert	past	son		princess		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
7	is a	past	princess's forehead	a snowy mountain			tree rules
8	contain	past	a snowy mountain	splendid halls			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hall=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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