Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 57

She had seated herself upon one of the largest, and let the wind play with her long hair, and she remarked that all the ships sailed by rapidly, and steered as far away as they could from the iceberg, as if they were afraid of it.

Who acts: turn, ships, icebergs · What happens: seat, let, remark, sail, steer, be · To what, where: turn, wind play

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, ships, icebergs), 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 seated	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seated	aux
3	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 seated	obj
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 seated	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 largest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 largest	det
9	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 let	cc
12	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 seated	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 play	det
14	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 play	compound
15	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 hair	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hair	nmod:poss
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hair	amod
19	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 play	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 remarked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 remarked	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 remarked	nsubj
23	remarked	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seated	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 sailed	mark
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 ships	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ships	det
27	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sailed	nsubj
28	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 remarked	advcl
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 rapidly	case
30	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	28 sailed	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 steered	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 steered	cc
33	steered	steer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sailed	conj
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 far	advmod
35	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 away	advmod
36	away	away	ADV	_	33 steered	advmod
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 could	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 could	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 away	advcl
40	from	from	ADP	_	42 iceberg	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 iceberg	det
42	iceberg	iceberg	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 could	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 afraid	punct
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 afraid	mark
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	48 afraid	mark
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 afraid	nsubj
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 afraid	cop
48	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 steered	advcl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 it	case
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 afraid	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seat	past · perfect	turn	turn	upon one of the largest	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value
2	let	infinitive		the wind play	with turn's long hair	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Theme
3	remark speech: assert	past	turn			vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sail	past	all ships			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
5	steer	past	all ships not said here		away property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	icebergs = iceberg		of hair; afraid 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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