Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 21

One arranged her flower-bed into the form of a whale; another thought it better to make hers like the figure of a little mermaid; but that of the youngest was round like the sun, and contained flowers as red as his rays at sunset.

Who acts: One, another, sun, that, mermaid · What happens: arrange, think, make, like, be, contain · To what, where: flower bed, form, bed, sun, figure, flowers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (One, another, sun, that), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 arranged	nsubj
2	arranged	arrange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bed	nmod:poss
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bed	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 flower	punct
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arranged	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 form	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 form	det
9	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arranged	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 whale	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 whale	det
12	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 form	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
14	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 arranged	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thought	obj
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 thought	xcomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 make	mark
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thought	ccomp
20	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 make	obj
21	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 make	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 figure	det
23	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 like	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 mermaid	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 mermaid	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mermaid	amod
27	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 figure	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 round	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 round	cc
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 round	nsubj
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	35 round	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 round	det
33	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 round	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 round	cop
35	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 arranged	parataxis
36	like	like	ADP	_	38 sun	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sun	det
38	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 round	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 contained	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 contained	cc
41	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 arranged	conj
42	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 contained	obj
43	as	as	ADP	_	44 red	case
44	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 contained	obl
45	as	as	ADP	_	47 rays	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 rays	nmod:poss
47	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 contained	obl
48	at	at	ADP	_	49 sunset	case
49	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 rays	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 arranged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrange	past	One	sun's flower bed	the form of a whale		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent bed=Material into form=Product
2	think speech: other	past	another	bed		good property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive		sun			tree rules
4	like	infinitive	sun not said here	the figure of a little mermaid			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot figure=Theme
5	is	past	that			like the sun; round property	tree rules
6	contain	past	One not said here	flowers		as red; as mermaid's rays at sunset	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot flower=Theme
7	form			a whale			nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient
8	figure			a little mermaid			nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient
9	ray		mermaid			at sunset	nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent at=obl

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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