Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 82

The little mermaid was so startled that she dived under water; and when she again stretched out her head, it appeared as if all the stars of heaven were falling around her, she had never seen such fireworks before.

Who acts: birthday, it, stars · What happens: startle, dive, stretch out, appear, fall, not see · To what, where: little mermaid, water, head, such fireworks

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 (birthday, it, stars), 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	6 startled	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 startled	aux:pass
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 startled	advmod
6	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 dived	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dived	nsubj
9	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 startled	advcl
10	under	under	ADP	_	11 water	case
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dived	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 appeared	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 appeared	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 stretched	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stretched	nsubj
16	again	again	ADV	_	17 stretched	advmod
17	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 appeared	advcl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 stretched	compound:prt
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 head	nmod:poss
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stretched	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stretched	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 appeared	nsubj
23	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 startled	conj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 falling	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 falling	mark
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 stars	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stars	det
28	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 falling	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 heaven	case
30	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stars	nmod
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 falling	aux
32	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 appeared	advcl
33	around	around	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 falling	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 seen	punct
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 seen	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 seen	aux
38	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	39 seen	advmod
39	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 startled	conj
40	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 fireworks	amod
41	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 seen	obj
42	before	before	ADV	_	39 seen	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 startled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	startle	past · passive		the little mermaid				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	dive	past	birthday		water			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under water=Location
3	stretch out	past	birthday	birthday's head		again		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	appear	past	it					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall	past · progressive	all stars of heaven				around birthday	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around she=Location
6	not see	past · perfect	birthday	such fireworks			before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer firework=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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