Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 65

And these things were never to be beautiful for them; for if the ship sank, the men were drowned, and their dead bodies alone reached the palace of the Sea King.

Who acts: things, ship, dead bodies · What happens: not be, sink, drown, reach · To what, where: men, palace

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 (things, ship, dead bodies), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 beautiful	cc
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 things	det
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 beautiful	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 beautiful	cop
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 beautiful	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	8 beautiful	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 beautiful	cop
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 beautiful	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 sank	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 sank	mark
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 sank	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ship	det
15	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sank	nsubj
16	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 beautiful	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 drowned	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 men	det
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 drowned	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 drowned	aux:pass
21	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 sank	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 reached	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 reached	cc
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 bodies	nmod:poss
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bodies	amod
26	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 reached	nsubj
27	alone	alone	ADV	_	28 reached	advmod
28	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sank	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 palace	det
30	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 reached	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 King	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 King	det
33	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 King	compound
34	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 palace	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 beautiful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	this things		for sailors = sailor; beautiful property	tree rules
2	sink a condition, not said to happen	past	the ship			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	drown	past · passive		the men		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	reach	past	sailors's dead bodies	the palace of the Sea King	alone property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme

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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