Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 50
The fourth sister was more timid; she remained in the midst of the sea, but she said it was quite as beautiful there as nearer the land.
Who acts: fourth sister, turn, sea · What happens: be, remain, say · To what, where: midst · 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 (fourth sister, turn, sea), 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 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 sister | amod |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 timid | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 timid | cop |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 timid | advmod |
| 6 | timid | timid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 remained | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 remained | nsubj |
| 9 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 timid | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 midst | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 midst | det |
| 12 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remained | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 midst | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 timid | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 beautiful | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 beautiful | cop |
| 22 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 24 beautiful | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 beautiful | advmod |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 said | ccomp |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 beautiful | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 nearer | advmod |
| 27 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 beautiful | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 land | det |
| 29 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 nearer | nsubj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 timid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fourth sister | timid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | turn | the midst of the sea | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | turn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | sea | there | beautiful property | 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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