Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 60

When first the sisters had permission to rise to the surface, they were each delighted with the new and beautiful sights they saw; but now, as grown-up girls, they could go when they pleased, and they had become indifferent about it.

Who acts: sisters · What happens: have, rise, be, see, grow up, go · To what, where: permission, surface, new sights

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 (sisters), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	2 first	advmod
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 had	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sisters	det
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 rise	mark
8	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 permission	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 surface	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 surface	det
11	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rise	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 delighted	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 delighted	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 delighted	cop
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 delighted	det
16	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 had	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	22 sights	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sights	det
19	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sights	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 beautiful	cc
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 new	conj
22	sights	sight	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 delighted	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sights	acl:relcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 go	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 go	cc
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 go	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 now	punct
29	as	as	ADP	_	33 girls	case
30	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 girls	amod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 up	punct
32	up	up	ADP	_	30 grown	compound:prt
33	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 go	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 girls	punct
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 go	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 go	aux
37	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	conj
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 pleased	advmod
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 pleased	nsubj
40	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 go	xcomp
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 become	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 become	cc
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 become	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 become	aux
45	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 go	parataxis
46	indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 become	xcomp
47	about	about	ADP	_	48 it	case
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 indifferent	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the sisters	permission			first property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient
2	rise	to-infinitive	the sisters not said here	permission not said here	the surface			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location
3	is	past	sisters = sister				with the new sights; delighted property	tree rules
4	see	past	sisters = sister	the new sights not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus
5	grow up	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	go	could	sisters = sister			now	as grown girls; pleased property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	become	past · perfect	sisters = sister				indifferent property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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