Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 51

She could see for so many miles around her, and the sky above looked like a bell of glass.

Who acts: turn, sky · What happens: see, look

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, sky), 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 see	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 miles	case
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 miles	amod
7	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	obl
8	around	around	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 miles	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 looked	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sky	det
13	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looked	nsubj
14	above	above	ADV	_	15 looked	advmod
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 see	advcl
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 bell	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bell	det
18	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looked	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 glass	case
20	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bell	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	turn					for many miles around land	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	look	past	the sky					like a bell of glass; above property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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