Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 61

They wished themselves back again in the water, and after a month had passed they said it was much more beautiful down below, and pleasanter to be at home.

Who acts: sisters, water · What happens: wish back, pass, say, be · To what, where: sisters, water, home · 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 (sisters, water), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 wished	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 wished	advmod
5	again	again	ADV	_	2 wished	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wished	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 passed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 passed	cc
11	after	after	ADP	_	13 month	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 month	det
13	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 passed	obl
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 passed	aux
15	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 wished	parataxis
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 passed	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 beautiful	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 beautiful	cop
20	much	much	ADV	_	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 beautiful	advmod
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	ccomp
23	down	down	ADV	_	24 below	advmod
24	below	below	ADV	_	22 beautiful	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pleasanter	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pleasanter	cc
27	pleasanter	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 wished	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	31 home	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 home	cop
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 home	case
31	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pleasanter	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish back	past	sisters = sister	sisters = sister	the water	again		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Theme
2	pass	past · perfect				month		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	sisters = sister					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	water				beautiful, below property	tree rules
5	is	to-infinitive	sisters = sister not said here		home			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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