Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 25
She seemed frightened at first, but only for a moment; then she fetched a number of people, and the mermaid saw that the prince came to life again, and smiled upon those who stood round him.
Who acts: face, mermaid, prince · What happens: frighten, fetch, see, come, smile, stand · To what, where: face, number, life
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, mermaid, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 frightened | aux:pass |
| 3 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 first | case |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 frightened | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 moment | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 moment | cc |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 moment | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 frightened | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 fetched | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 fetched | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fetched | nsubj |
| 15 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 frightened | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 number | det |
| 17 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fetched | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 people | case |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 number | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saw | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 saw | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mermaid | det |
| 23 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saw | nsubj |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fetched | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 came | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 prince | det |
| 27 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 came | nsubj |
| 28 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 saw | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 life | case |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 came | obl |
| 31 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 came | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 smiled | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 smiled | cc |
| 34 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fetched | conj |
| 35 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 36 those | case |
| 36 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 34 smiled | obl |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 stood | nsubj |
| 38 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 those | acl:relcl |
| 39 | round | round | ADP | _ | 40 him | case |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 stood | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | face | moment | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | fetch | past | face | a number of people | then | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | past | the mermaid | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | come | past | the prince | life | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | smile | past | face not said here | upon those | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | stand | past | round prince | 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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