Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 80

Among them was a young prince, the most beautiful of all, with large black eyes; he was sixteen years of age, and his birthday was being kept with much rejoicing.

Who acts: waves, mermaid · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: sixteen years, birthday

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 (waves, mermaid), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	6 prince	case
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 prince	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prince	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 prince	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 prince	amod
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beautiful	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 prince	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beautiful	det
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 beautiful	advmod
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 beautiful	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eyes	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 eyes	case
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eyes	amod
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eyes	amod
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 beautiful	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 years	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 years	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 years	cop
21	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 years	nummod
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 beautiful	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 age	case
24	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 years	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 kept	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 kept	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 birthday	nmod:poss
28	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 kept	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 kept	aux:pass
30	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 kept	aux:pass
31	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 beautiful	parataxis
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 rejoicing	case
33	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 rejoicing	amod
34	rejoicing	rejoicing	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 kept	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 beautiful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	waves = wave			among a young prince	tree rules
2	is a	past	mermaid	sixteen years	of age		tree rules
3	keep	past · passive		mermaid's birthday		with much rejoicing	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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