Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 16
The sun rose up red and glowing from the water, and its beams brought back the hue of health to the prince's cheeks; but his eyes remained closed.
Who acts: sun, beams, eyes · What happens: rise up, glow, bring back, remain, close, beam · To what, where: water, hue, cheeks
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 (sun, beams, eyes), 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 | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 rose | compound:prt |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rose | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 glowing | cc |
| 7 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 red | conj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glowing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brought | cc |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 beams | nmod:poss |
| 14 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 brought | nsubj |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 brought | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hue | det |
| 18 | hue | hue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 health | case |
| 20 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hue | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 cheeks | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 prince | det |
| 23 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 prince | case |
| 25 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 brought | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 remained | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 remained | cc |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 remained | nsubj |
| 30 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 31 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 remained | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | the sun | red property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | glow | gerund | the sun not said here | the water | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring back | past | sun's beams | the hue of health | the prince's cheeks | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hue=Theme to cheek=Destination | |||
| 4 | remain | past | fragment's eyes | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | close | participle | fragment's eyes not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | beam | sun | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=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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