Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 44
She also swam towards the sun; but it sunk into the waves, and the rosy tints faded from the clouds and from the sea.
Who acts: turn, cloud, rosy tints · What happens: swim, sink, fade · To what, where: sun, waves, clouds
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, cloud, rosy tints), 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 | 3 swam | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 swam | advmod |
| 3 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 6 sun | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swam | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 sunk | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 sunk | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sunk | nsubj |
| 10 | sunk | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swam | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 waves | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 waves | det |
| 13 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sunk | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 faded | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 faded | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tints | det |
| 17 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tints | amod |
| 18 | tints | tint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 faded | nsubj |
| 19 | faded | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swam | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 clouds | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 clouds | det |
| 22 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 faded | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sea | cc |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 sea | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sea | det |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 clouds | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | turn | the sun | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards sun=Destination | ||||
| 2 | sink | past | cloud | the waves | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fade | past | the rosy tints | the clouds and the sea | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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