Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 37

When something like a black cloud passed between her and them, she knew that it was either a whale swimming over her head, or a ship full of human beings, who never imagined that a pretty little mermaid was standing beneath them, holding out her white hands towards the keel of their ship.

Who acts: something, turn, cloud, whale, human beings, pretty little mermaid · What happens: pass, know, be, swim, not imagine, stand · To what, where: whale, head, white hands · 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 (something, turn, cloud, whale), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 passed	advmod
2	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 passed	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 cloud	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cloud	det
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cloud	amod
6	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 something	nmod
7	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 knew	advcl
8	between	between	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 passed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 them	cc
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 passed	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 passed	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 knew	nsubj
14	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 whale	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 whale	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 whale	cop
18	either	either	CCONJ	_	20 whale	cc:preconj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 whale	det
20	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 knew	ccomp
21	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 whale	acl
22	over	over	ADP	_	24 head	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 swimming	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ship	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 ship	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 ship	det
28	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 whale	parataxis
29	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ship	amod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 beings	case
31	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 beings	amod
32	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 full	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 imagined	punct
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 imagined	nsubj
35	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	36 imagined	advmod
36	imagined	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 beings	acl:relcl
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 standing	mark
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 mermaid	det
39	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 mermaid	amod
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 mermaid	amod
41	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 standing	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 standing	aux
43	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 imagined	advcl
44	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 standing	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 holding	punct
47	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 standing	advcl
48	out	out	ADP	_	47 holding	compound:prt
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 hands	nmod:poss
50	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 hands	amod
51	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 holding	obj
52	towards	towards	ADP	_	54 keel	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 keel	det
54	keel	keel	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 holding	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 ship	case
56	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 ship	nmod:poss
57	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 keel	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	something			between turn	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between she=Location
2	know	past	turn				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	cloud	a whale			tree rules
4	swim	gerund	a whale not said here		turn's head		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Trajectory
5	not imagine	past	human beings				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	stand	past · progressive	a pretty little mermaid			beneath moon	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath they=Location
7	hold out	gerund	a pretty little mermaid not said here	turn's white hands		towards the keel of moon's ship	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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