Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 47

In a narrow creek she found a whole troop of little human children, quite naked, and sporting about in the water; she wanted to play with them, but they fled in a great fright; and then a little black animal came to the water; it was a dog, but she did not know that, for she had never before seen one.

Who acts: turn, rays, little black animal, water · What happens: find, sport, want, play, flee, come · To what, where: whole troop, narrow creek, water, great fright, dog, that · 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, rays, little black animal, water), 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	_	4 creek	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 creek	det
3	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 creek	amod
4	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 troop	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 troop	amod
9	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 children	case
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 children	amod
12	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 children	amod
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 troop	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 naked	punct
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 naked	advmod
16	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 found	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sporting	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sporting	cc
19	sporting	sport	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 naked	advcl
20	about	about	ADV	_	19 sporting	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 water	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 water	det
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sporting	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 wanted	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wanted	nsubj
26	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	28 play	mark
28	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wanted	xcomp
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 play	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fled	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 fled	cc
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 fled	nsubj
34	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 wanted	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 fright	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 fright	det
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 fright	amod
38	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fled	obl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 came	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 came	cc
41	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 came	advmod
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 animal	det
43	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 animal	amod
44	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 animal	amod
45	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 came	nsubj
46	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	parataxis
47	to	to	ADP	_	49 water	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 water	det
49	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 came	obl
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 dog	punct
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 dog	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 dog	cop
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 dog	det
54	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 came	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 know	punct
56	but	but	CCONJ	_	60 know	cc
57	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 know	nsubj
58	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 know	aux
59	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	60 know	advmod
60	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 came	conj
61	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	60 know	obj
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 seen	punct
63	for	for	SCONJ	_	68 seen	mark
64	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 seen	nsubj
65	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 seen	aux
66	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	67 before	advmod
67	before	before	ADV	_	68 seen	advmod
68	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	60 know	ccomp
69	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	68 seen	obj
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	turn	a whole troop of little human children	a narrow creek			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troop=Topic
2	sport	gerund	turn not said here		the water		about property	tree rules
3	want	past	turn					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	turn not said here				with children = child	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=Theme
5	flee	past	rays = ray		a great fright			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	past	a little black animal		the water	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to water=Initial_Location
7	is a	past	water	a dog				tree rules
8	not know	past · do-support	turn	that				tree rules
9	see	past · perfect	turn	one			before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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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