Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 12

Then she dived deeply under the dark waters, rising and falling with the waves, till at length she managed to reach the young prince, who was fast losing the power of swimming in that stormy sea.

Who acts: water, young prince · What happens: dive, rise, fall, manage, reach, be · To what, where: dark waters, length, young prince, power, stormy sea

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, young prince), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 dived	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dived	nsubj
3	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	3 dived	advmod
5	under	under	ADP	_	8 waters	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 waters	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 waters	amod
8	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dived	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rising	punct
10	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dived	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 falling	cc
12	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 rising	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 waves	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 waves	det
15	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 falling	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 length	punct
17	till	till	ADP	_	19 length	case
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 length	case
19	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 falling	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 managed	nsubj
21	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 length	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 reach	mark
23	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 managed	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 prince	det
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 prince	amod
26	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 reach	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fast	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 fast	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fast	cop
30	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 prince	acl:relcl
31	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 fast	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 power	det
33	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 losing	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 swimming	case
35	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 power	nmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 sea	case
37	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 sea	det
38	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sea	amod
39	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 losing	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dive	past	water		the dark waters	then	deeply property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under water=Location
2	rise	gerund	water not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	gerund	water not said here			till length	with the waves	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	manage	past	water	length not said here				tree rules
5	reach	to-infinitive	water not said here	the young prince				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent prince=Theme
6	is	past	the young prince				fast property	tree rules
7	lose	gerund	the young prince not said here	the power of swimming	that stormy sea			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality

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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