Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 38

As soon as the eldest was fifteen, she was allowed to rise to the surface of the ocean.

Who acts: eldest, turn · What happens: be, allow, rise · To what, where: fifteen, turn, surface

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 (eldest, turn), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 eldest	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 eldest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 eldest	det
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 fifteen	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fifteen	cop
7	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 allowed	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 allowed	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 allowed	aux:pass
11	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 fifteen	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 rise	mark
13	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 allowed	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 surface	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 surface	det
16	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rise	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 ocean	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ocean	det
19	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 surface	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fifteen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	the eldest	fifteen		tree rules
2	allow	past · passive		turn		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	rise not said to happen	to-infinitive	turn not said here		the surface of the ocean	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location

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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