Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 55

The sea looked quite green, and large icebergs were floating about, each like a pearl, she said, but larger and loftier than the churches built by men.

Who acts: sea, large icebergs, turn · What happens: look, float, say, build · To what, where: each, churches · 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 (sea, large icebergs, turn), 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	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 green	advmod
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 floating	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 floating	cc
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 icebergs	amod
9	icebergs	iceberg	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 floating	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 floating	aux
11	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 looked	conj
12	about	about	ADV	_	11 floating	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 each	punct
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 floating	obl
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 pearl	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pearl	det
17	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 each	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 larger	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 larger	cc
23	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 said	ccomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 loftier	cc
25	loftier	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 larger	conj
26	than	than	ADP	_	28 churches	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 churches	det
28	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 larger	obl
29	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 churches	acl
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 men	case
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 built	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	the sea		green property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	float	past · progressive	large icebergs	each	about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	turn			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	build	participle		the churches not said here	by men	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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