Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 24
She did not wait long before she saw a young girl approach the spot where he lay.
Who acts: face, young girl, sea · What happens: not wait, see, approach, lie · To what, where: young girl, spot
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 (face, young girl, sea), 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 | 4 wait | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wait | advmod |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 wait | advmod |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 saw | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 12 | approach | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saw | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spot | det |
| 14 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 approach | obj |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 lay | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 17 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 spot | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | past · do-support | face | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | face | a young girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | approach | infinitive | a young girl not said here | the spot | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lie | past | sea | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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