Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 11

So she swam about among the beams and planks which strewed the surface of the sea, forgetting that they could crush her to pieces.

Who acts: water, beams, planks · What happens: swim, strew, forget, not crush · To what, where: beams, surface, water

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 (water, beams, planks), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 swam	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swam	nsubj
3	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 swam	advmod
5	among	among	ADP	_	7 beams	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beams	det
7	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swam	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 planks	cc
9	planks	plank	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 beams	conj
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 strewed	nsubj
11	strewed	strew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 beams	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 surface	det
13	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 strewed	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 sea	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sea	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 surface	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 forgetting	punct
18	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 swam	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 crush	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 crush	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 crush	aux
22	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 forgetting	xcomp
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 crush	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 pieces	case
25	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 crush	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim	past	water		the beams and planks	about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among beam=Trajectory
2	strew	past	the beams and planks	the surface of the sea			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent surface=Theme
3	forget	gerund	water not said here				tree rules
4	not crush	could	planks = plank	water		to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient to piece=Result

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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