Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 25

It grew splendidly, and very soon hung its fresh branches over the statue, almost down to the blue sands.

Who acts: statue · What happens: grow, hang · To what, where: fresh branches, statue

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 (statue), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	_	2 grew	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hung	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hung	cc
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 soon	advmod
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 hung	advmod
8	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	parataxis
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 branches	nmod:poss
10	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 branches	amod
11	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hung	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 statue	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 statue	det
14	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hung	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 down	punct
16	almost	almost	ADV	_	17 down	advmod
17	down	down	ADV	_	8 hung	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 sands	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sands	det
20	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sands	amod
21	sands	sand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 down	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	statue					splendidly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hang	past		statue's fresh branches		the statue		soon property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme over statue=Destination

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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