Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 21

The sea here formed a little bay, in which the water was quite still, but very deep; so she swam with the handsome prince to the beach, which was covered with fine, white sand, and there she laid him in the warm sunshine, taking care to raise his head higher than his body.

Who acts: sea, water · What happens: form, be, swim, cover, lay, take · To what, where: little bay, beach, sea, warm sunshine, care, head

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 (sea, water), 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 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 formed	nsubj
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 sea	advmod
4	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bay	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bay	amod
7	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 formed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 deep	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 deep	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 still	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 still	cop
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 still	advmod
15	still	still	ADV	_	19 deep	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 deep	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 deep	cc
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 deep	advmod
19	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 formed	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 swam	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 swam	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 swam	nsubj
23	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 formed	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 prince	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 prince	det
26	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 prince	amod
27	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 swam	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 beach	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 beach	det
30	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 swam	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 covered	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 covered	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 covered	aux:pass
34	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 beach	acl:relcl
35	with	with	ADP	_	39 sand	case
36	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sand	amod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fine	punct
38	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sand	amod
39	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 covered	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 laid	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 laid	cc
42	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 laid	advmod
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 laid	nsubj
44	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 formed	conj
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 laid	obj
46	in	in	ADP	_	49 sunshine	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 sunshine	det
48	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 sunshine	amod
49	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 laid	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 taking	punct
51	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 laid	advcl
52	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 taking	obj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 raise	mark
54	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 taking	advcl
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 head	nmod:poss
56	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 raise	obj
57	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	54 raise	advmod
58	than	than	ADP	_	60 body	case
59	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 body	nmod:poss
60	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 higher	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 formed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	form	past	the sea	a little bay			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bay=Theme
2	is	past	the water			still property	tree rules
3	swim	past	water		the beach	with the handsome prince	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to beach=Destination
4	cover	past · passive		the beach		with fine white sand	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with sand=Theme
5	lay	past	water	sea	the warm sunshine; there		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in sunshine=Destination
6	take	gerund	water not said here	care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
7	raise	to-infinitive	water not said here	sea's head			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme

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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