Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 66

When the sisters rose, arm-in-arm, through the water in this way, their youngest sister would stand quite alone, looking after them, ready to cry, only that the mermaids have no tears, and therefore they suffer more. "

Who acts: sisters, youngest sister, mermaids · What happens: rise, stand, look, cry, have, suffer · To what, where: arm, tears, more

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, youngest sister, mermaids), 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	4 rose	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sisters	det
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rose	nsubj
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 arm	punct
6	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arm	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 arm	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 arm	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 in	punct
10	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 water	punct
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 way	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stand	punct
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sister	nmod:poss
20	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 sister	amod
21	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stand	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 stand	aux
23	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rose	conj
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 alone	advmod
25	alone	alone	ADV	_	23 stand	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 looking	punct
27	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 stand	advcl
28	after	after	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 looking	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ready	punct
31	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 looking	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 cry	mark
33	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 ready	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 have	punct
35	only	only	ADV	_	39 have	advmod
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 have	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 mermaids	det
38	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 have	nsubj
39	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 cry	advcl
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 tears	det
41	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 have	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 suffer	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 suffer	cc
44	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	46 suffer	advmod
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 suffer	nsubj
46	suffer	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	conj
47	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	46 suffer	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	46 suffer	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 suffer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the sisters		arm		through the water; in this way	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in arm=Location
2	stand	would	arms's youngest sister				alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	gerund	arms's youngest sister not said here			after sisters = sister		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	arms's youngest sister not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	present	the mermaids	no tears				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient
6	suffer	present	sisters = sister	more			therefore property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus

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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