Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 40

Oh, did not the youngest sister listen eagerly to all these descriptions? and afterwards, when she stood at the open window looking up through the dark blue water, she thought of the great city, with all its bustle and noise, and even fancied she could hear the sound of the church bells, down in the depths of the sea.

Who acts: youngest sister, turn, city · What happens: not listen, stand, look up, think, fancy, hear · To what, where: open window, sound, depths

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 (youngest sister, turn, city), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 listen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 listen	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 listen	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sister	det
6	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 sister	amod
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 listen	nsubj
8	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	8 listen	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 descriptions	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 descriptions	det:predet
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 descriptions	det
13	descriptions	description	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 listen	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 listen	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 afterwards	cc
16	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	8 listen	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stood	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 stood	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stood	nsubj
20	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 listen	parataxis
21	at	at	ADP	_	24 window	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 window	det
23	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 window	amod
24	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stood	obl
25	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 stood	advcl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 looking	compound:prt
27	through	through	ADP	_	31 water	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 water	det
29	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 water	amod
30	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 water	amod
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 looking	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 thought	punct
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 thought	nsubj
34	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stood	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 city	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 city	det
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 city	amod
38	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 thought	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 bustle	punct
40	with	with	ADP	_	43 bustle	case
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 bustle	det:predet
42	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 bustle	nmod:poss
43	bustle	bustle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 thought	ccomp
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 noise	cc
45	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 bustle	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 fancied	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 fancied	cc
48	even	even	ADV	_	49 fancied	advmod
49	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stood	conj
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 hear	nsubj
51	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 hear	aux
52	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 fancied	ccomp
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 sound	det
54	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 hear	obj
55	of	of	ADP	_	58 bells	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 bells	det
57	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 bells	compound
58	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 sound	nmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 down	punct
60	down	down	ADV	_	52 hear	advmod
61	in	in	ADP	_	63 depths	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 depths	det
63	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 hear	obl
64	of	of	ADP	_	66 sea	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 sea	det
66	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 depths	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not listen	past · do-support	the youngest sister			to all descriptions; eagerly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to description=Theme
2	stand	past	turn		the open window		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location
3	look up	gerund	turn not said here			through the dark blue water	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through water=Theme
4	think speech: other	past	turn			of the great city	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fancy	past	turn not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	hear	could	turn	the sound of the church bells	the depths of the sea	down property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
7	bustle		city				nom bustle «act intransitive»: poss=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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