Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 46

On the banks she saw green hills covered with beautiful vines; palaces and castles peeped out from amid the proud trees of the forest; she heard the birds singing, and the rays of the sun were so powerful that she was obliged often to dive down under the water to cool her burning face.

Who acts: turn, birds, rays · What happens: see, cover, peep out, hear, sing, be · To what, where: green hills, banks, palaces, birds, turn, water

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, birds, rays), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 banks	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 banks	det
3	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 saw	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hills	amod
7	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 saw	obj
8	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 hills	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 vines	case
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 vines	amod
11	vines	vine	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 covered	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 palaces	punct
13	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 saw	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 castles	cc
15	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 palaces	conj
16	peeped	peep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 palaces	acl
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 peeped	compound:prt
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 amid	case
19	amid	amid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 peeped	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 trees	det
21	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 trees	amod
22	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 amid	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 forest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 forest	det
25	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 trees	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 heard	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 heard	nsubj
28	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 birds	det
30	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 heard	obj
31	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 birds	acl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 powerful	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 powerful	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 rays	det
35	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 powerful	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 sun	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sun	det
38	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rays	nmod
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 powerful	cop
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 powerful	advmod
41	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 heard	conj
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 obliged	mark
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 obliged	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 obliged	aux:pass
45	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 powerful	advcl
46	often	often	ADV	_	48 dive	advmod
47	to	to	PART	_	48 dive	mark
48	dive	dive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	45 obliged	parataxis
49	down	down	ADP	_	48 dive	compound:prt
50	under	under	ADP	_	52 water	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 water	det
52	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 dive	obl
53	to	to	PART	_	54 cool	mark
54	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 dive	advcl
55	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 cool	obj
56	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	54 cool	advcl
57	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 burning	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	turn	green hills	the banks		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hill=Stimulus
2	cover	participle		green hills not said here		with beautiful vines	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with vine=Theme
3	peep out	participle		palaces and castles not said here		from amid	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from amid=Theme
4	hear	past	turn	the birds			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
5	sing speech: express	gerund	the birds not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	the rays of the sun			powerful property	tree rules
7	oblige	past · passive		turn			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	dive down	to-infinitive			the water	often property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under water=Location
9	cool	to-infinitive		turn			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient
10	burn	gerund		face			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Theme
11	ray			the sun			nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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