Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 1
It was very late; yet the little mermaid could not take her eyes from the ship, or from the beautiful prince.
Who acts: It, little mermaid · What happens: be, not take · To what, where: eyes, ship
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, little 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 late | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 late | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 late | advmod |
| 4 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 6 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 12 take | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mermaid | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mermaid | amod |
| 9 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 take | advmod |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 late | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 take | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 ship | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ship | det |
| 17 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 prince | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 prince | cc |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 prince | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 prince | det |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 prince | amod |
| 23 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 late | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not take | could | the little mermaid | mermaid's eyes | the ship | from the beautiful prince | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme from ship=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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