Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 54

The fifth sister's birthday occurred in the winter; so when her turn came, she saw what the others had not seen the first time they went up.

Who acts: birthday, turn, others · What happens: occur, come, see, not see, go up · To what, where: others, first time · 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 (birthday, turn, others), 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	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sister	amod
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 birthday	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 sister	case
5	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 occurred	nsubj
6	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 winter	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 winter	det
9	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 occurred	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	18 saw	advmod
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 turn	nmod:poss
14	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 occurred	parataxis
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 seen	obj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 others	det
21	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 seen	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 seen	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 seen	advmod
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 saw	ccomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 time	det
26	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 time	amod
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seen	obj
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 time	acl:relcl
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 went	compound:prt
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 occurred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	occur	past	the fifth sister's birthday		winter	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	birthday's turn			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	turn			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not see	past · perfect · passive		the others	time	tree rules
5	go up	past	others = other	the first time not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient time=Extent

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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