Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 79

The little mermaid swam close to the cabin windows; and now and then, as the waves lifted her up, she could look in through clear glass window-panes, and see a number of well-dressed people within.

Who acts: little mermaid, waves, darkness · What happens: swim, lift up, look in, see, dress · To what, where: darkness, number

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 (little mermaid, waves, darkness), 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 mermaid	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mermaid	amod
3	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swam	nsubj
4	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 swam	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 windows	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 windows	det
8	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 windows	compound
9	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 close	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 now	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 now	cc
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 swam	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 then	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 now	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lifted	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 lifted	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 waves	det
18	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lifted	nsubj
19	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swam	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lifted	obj
21	up	up	ADP	_	19 lifted	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 look	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 look	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 look	aux
25	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 swam	parataxis
26	in	in	ADP	_	25 look	compound:prt
27	through	through	ADP	_	32 panes	case
28	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 panes	amod
29	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 panes	compound
30	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 panes	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 window	punct
32	panes	pane	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 look	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 see	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 see	cc
35	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 look	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 number	det
37	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 see	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	42 people	case
39	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 dressed	advmod
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 well	punct
41	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 people	amod
42	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 number	nmod
43	within	within	ADP	_	35 see	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	the little mermaid		now	close property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lift up	past	the waves	darkness			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	look in	could	darkness			through clear glass window panes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through pane=Theme
4	see	infinitive	darkness not said here	a number of dressed people			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus
5	dress	participle				well property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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