Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 45

The third sister's turn followed; she was the boldest of them all, and she swam up a broad river that emptied itself into the sea.

Who acts: turn, broad river · What happens: follow, be, swim up, empty · To what, where: broad river, river, sea

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, broad river), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sister	det
2	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 sister	amod
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 sister	case
5	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 followed	nsubj
6	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 boldest	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 boldest	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 boldest	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boldest	det
11	boldest	bold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 followed	parataxis
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 boldest	obl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 them	nmod:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 swam	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 swam	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 swam	nsubj
18	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 followed	conj
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 swam	compound:prt
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 river	det
21	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 river	amod
22	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swam	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 emptied	nsubj
24	emptied	empty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 river	acl:relcl
25	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 emptied	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 sea	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sea	det
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 emptied	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	past	the third sister's turn				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	turn			of sisters = sister; bold property	tree rules
3	swim up	past	turn	a broad river			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme river=Trajectory
4	empty	past	a broad river	river	the sea		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent itself=Theme into sea=Destination

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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