Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 70

Then the old lady ordered eight great oysters to attach themselves to the tail of the princess to show her high rank.

Who acts: old lady, eight great oysters · What happens: order, attach, show · To what, where: eight great oysters, oysters, high rank

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 (old lady, eight great oysters), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 ordered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ordered	nsubj
5	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 oysters	nummod
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 oysters	amod
8	oysters	oyster	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ordered	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 attach	mark
10	attach	attach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ordered	xcomp
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 attach	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 tail	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tail	det
14	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 attach	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 princess	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 princess	det
17	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tail	nmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 show	mark
19	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 attach	advcl
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 rank	nmod:poss
21	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 rank	amod
22	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 show	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	the old lady	eight great oysters	then		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent oyster=Recipient clause=Topic
2	attach not said to happen	to-infinitive	eight great oysters not said here	oysters = oyster		to the tail of the princess	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient to tail=Co-Patient
3	show	to-infinitive	eight great oysters not said here	body's high rank			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rank=Recipient

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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