Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 35

Many nights she stood by the open window, looking up through the dark blue water, and watching the fish as they splashed about with their fins and tails.

Who acts: Many nights, Fishes · What happens: stand, look up, watch, splash about · To what, where: fish

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 (Many nights, Fishes), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 nights	amod
2	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stood	nsubj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 window	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 window	amod
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 looking	punct
10	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stood	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 looking	compound:prt
12	through	through	ADP	_	16 water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
14	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 water	amod
15	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 water	amod
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looking	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 splashed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 splashed	cc
19	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 splashed	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fish	det
21	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 watching	obj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 splashed	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 splashed	nsubj
24	splashed	splash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
25	about	about	ADV	_	24 splashed	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 fins	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 fins	nmod:poss
28	fins	fin	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 splashed	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tails	cc
30	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fins	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Many nights		by the open window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location
2	look up	gerund	Many nights not said here		through the dark blue water	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through water=Theme
3	watch	gerund	Fishes = fish not said here	the fish		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
4	splash about	past	Fishes = fish		with Fishes's fins and tails; about property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fin=Theme

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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