Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 14

She held his head above the water, and let the waves drift them where they would.

Who acts: mermaid, waves · What happens: hold, let, drift · To what, where: head, water, eyes

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 (mermaid, waves), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obj
5	above	above	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 let	cc
10	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 held	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 waves	det
12	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 drift	nsubj
13	drift	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 let	ccomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 drift	obj
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 would	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 would	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 drift	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hold	past	mermaid	sea's head	the water	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Theme above water=Location
2	let	infinitive	mermaid not said here			tree rules
3	drift	present	the waves	eyes = eye		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Agent

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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