Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 13

They were six beautiful children; but the youngest was the prettiest of them all; her skin was as clear and delicate as a rose-leaf, and her eyes as blue as the deepest sea; but, like all the others, she had no feet, and her body ended in a fish's tail.

Who acts: others, youngest, skin, eyes, mother, body · What happens: be, have, end · To what, where: six beautiful children, feet, tail

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, 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 (others, youngest, skin, eyes), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 children	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 children	cop
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 children	nummod
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 children	amod
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 prettiest	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 prettiest	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 youngest	det
9	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 prettiest	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 prettiest	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 prettiest	det
12	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 children	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 prettiest	obl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 them	nmod:unmarked
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 clear	punct
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 skin	nmod:poss
18	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 clear	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 clear	cop
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 clear	advmod
21	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 prettiest	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 delicate	cc
23	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 clear	conj
24	as	as	ADP	_	28 leaf	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 leaf	det
26	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 leaf	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 rose	punct
28	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 delicate	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 blue	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 blue	cc
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 eyes	nmod:poss
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 blue	nsubj
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 blue	advmod
34	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 clear	conj
35	as	as	ADP	_	38 sea	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sea	det
37	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 sea	amod
38	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 blue	obl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 had	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 had	cc
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 but	punct
42	like	like	ADP	_	45 others	case
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 others	det:predet
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 others	det
45	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 had	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 others	punct
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 had	nsubj
48	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 clear	parataxis
49	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	50 feet	det
50	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 had	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 ended	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 ended	cc
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 body	nmod:poss
54	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 ended	nsubj
55	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 had	conj
56	in	in	ADP	_	60 tail	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 fish	det
58	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 tail	nmod:poss
59	's	's	PART	_	58 fish	case
60	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 ended	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 children	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	others = other	six beautiful children			tree rules
2	is	past	the youngest			of others = other; pretty property	tree rules
3	is	past	mother's skin			clear property	tree rules
4	be		mother's skin not said here			as a rose leaf	tree rules
5	be		mother's eyes			as the deepest sea	tree rules
6	have	past	mother	no feet		like all others	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
7	end	past	mother's body		a fish's tail		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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