Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 36
She could see the moon and stars shining faintly; but through the water they looked larger than they do to our eyes.
Who acts: turn, stars, moon · What happens: see, shine, look, do · To what, where: moon
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 (turn, stars, moon), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moon | det |
| 5 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stars | cc |
| 7 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 moon | conj |
| 8 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stars | acl |
| 9 | faintly | faintly | ADV | _ | 8 shining | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looked | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | advcl |
| 17 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 looked | xcomp |
| 18 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 larger | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 do | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | turn | the moon and stars | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moon=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | shine | gerund | stars not said here | faintly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past | moon | through the water; large property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through water=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | present | moon | to our eyes | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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