Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 41
In another year the second sister received permission to rise to the surface of the water, and to swim about where she pleased.
Who acts: second sister · What happens: receive, rise, swim · To what, where: permission, 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 (second sister), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 year | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 received | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sister | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 sister | amod |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 received | nsubj |
| 7 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 received | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 rise | mark |
| 10 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 permission | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 surface | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 surface | det |
| 13 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rise | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 surface | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 swim | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 swim | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 swim | mark |
| 20 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 received | conj |
| 21 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 24 pleased | mark |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 pleased | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 pleased | nsubj |
| 24 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 swim | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the second sister | permission | year | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Theme | |||
| 2 | rise | to-infinitive | the second sister not said here | permission not said here | the surface of the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | swim | to-infinitive | the second sister not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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