Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 15

The large amber windows were open, and the fish swam in, just as the swallows fly into our houses when we open the windows, excepting that the fishes swam up to the princesses, ate out of their hands, and allowed themselves to be stroked.

Who acts: large amber windows, fish, swallows, we, fishes · What happens: be, swim, fly, open, except, swim up · To what, where: houses, windows, princesses, hands

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 (large amber windows, fish, swallows, we), 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	4 windows	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 windows	amod
3	amber	amber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 windows	compound
4	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 open	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 open	cop
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 swam	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 swam	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fish	det
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swam	nsubj
11	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 open	conj
12	in	in	ADV	_	11 swam	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fly	punct
14	just	just	ADV	_	18 fly	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 fly	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 swallows	det
17	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fly	nsubj
18	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 swam	parataxis
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 houses	case
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 houses	nmod:poss
21	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fly	obl
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 open	advmod
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 open	nsubj
24	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fly	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 windows	det
26	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 open	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 excepting	punct
28	excepting	except	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 open	advcl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 swam	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fishes	det
31	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 swam	nsubj
32	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 excepting	ccomp
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 swam	compound:prt
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 princesses	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 princesses	det
36	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 swam	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ate	punct
38	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 swam	conj
39	out	out	ADP	_	42 hands	case
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 hands	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 hands	nmod:poss
42	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 ate	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 allowed	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 allowed	cc
45	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 open	conj
46	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	45 allowed	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	49 stroked	mark
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 stroked	aux:pass
49	stroked	stroke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 allowed	advcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 open	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the large amber windows			open property	tree rules
2	swim	past	the fish				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fly	present	the swallows			into our houses result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result
4	open	present	we	the windows			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme
5	except	gerund	we not said here				tree rules
6	swim up	past	the fishes		the princesses		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to princess=Destination
7	eat out	past	the fishes not said here	Fishes's hands			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
8	allow	past	the large amber windows not said here	windows = window			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary
9	stroke	to-infinitive · passive	the large amber windows not said here				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»

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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