Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 74

The red flowers in her own garden would have suited her much better, but she could not help herself: so she said, "Farewell," and rose as lightly as a bubble to the surface of the water.

Who acts: Pride · What happens: suit, not help, say, rise · To what, where: red flowers, Pride, surface · 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 (Pride), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flowers	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flowers	amod
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 suited	nsubj:pass
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 garden	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 garden	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 garden	amod
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flowers	nmod
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 suited	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 suited	aux
10	suited	suit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 better	nsubj
12	much	much	ADV	_	13 better	advmod
13	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 suited	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 help	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 help	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 help	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 help	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 help	advmod
19	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 suited	conj
20	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 help	obj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 said	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 suited	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Farewell	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Farewell	punct
27	Farewell	farewell	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	24 said	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Farewell	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Farewell	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 rose	cc
31	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 said	conj
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 lightly	advmod
33	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	31 rose	advmod
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 bubble	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 bubble	det
36	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rose	obl
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 surface	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 surface	det
39	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rose	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 water	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 water	det
42	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 surface	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 suited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suit	would · perfect · passive		the red flowers in Pride's own garden			tree rules
2	not help	could	Pride	Pride			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary
3	say speech: assert	past	Pride				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	rise	past	Pride not said here		the surface of the water	as a bubble; lightly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location

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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