Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 31

"When you have reached your fifteenth year," said the grand-mother, "you will have permission to rise up out of the sea, to sit on the rocks in the moonlight, while the great ships are sailing by; and then you will see both forests and towns."

Who acts: you, grand mother, permission, great ships · What happens: reach, say, have, rise up, sit, sail · To what, where: permission, sea, rocks, forests · 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 (you, grand mother, permission, great ships), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
2	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 reached	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 reached	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	aux
5	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 year	nmod:poss
7	fifteenth	fifteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 year	amod
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 reached	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 reached	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mother	det
13	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mother	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 grand	punct
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	conj
21	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 rise	mark
23	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 have	xcomp
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 rise	compound:prt
25	out	out	ADP	_	28 sea	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 sea	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sea	det
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rise	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sit	punct
30	to	to	PART	_	31 sit	mark
31	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 rise	conj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 rocks	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 rocks	det
34	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sit	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 moonlight	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 moonlight	det
37	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sit	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 sailing	punct
39	while	while	SCONJ	_	44 sailing	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 ships	det
41	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 ships	amod
42	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 sailing	nsubj
43	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 sailing	aux
44	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 sit	advcl
45	by	by	ADP	_	44 sailing	fixed
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 see	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 see	cc
48	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 see	advmod
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 see	nsubj
50	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 see	aux
51	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	parataxis
52	both	both	CCONJ	_	53 forests	cc:preconj
53	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 see	obj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 towns	cc
55	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 forests	conj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 see	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach in a quote	present · perfect	you			year		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the grand mother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	future	you	permission				tree rules
4	rise up in a quote	to-infinitive	permission not said here		the sea			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out sea=Location
5	sit in a quote	to-infinitive	permission not said here		the rocks		in the moonlight	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location
6	sail in a quote	present · progressive	the great ships					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
7	see in a quote	future	you	forests and towns		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer forest=Stimulus

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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