Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 42
She rose just as the sun was setting, and this, she said, was the most beautiful sight of all.
Who acts: turn, sun · What happens: rise, set, say, be · To what, where: this, beautiful sight · 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 (turn, sun), 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 | 2 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 setting | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 setting | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 setting | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 setting | aux |
| 8 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 rose | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 this | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sight | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sight | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sight | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 beautiful | advmod |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sight | amod |
| 20 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 all | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 sight | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | turn | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | set | past · progressive | the sun | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | turn | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the beautiful sight | of all | tree rules |
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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