Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 27
This made her very unhappy, and when he was led away into the great building, she dived down sorrowfully into the water, and returned to her father's castle.
Who acts: This, face · What happens: make, lead away, dive down, return · To what, where: face, prince, great building, water
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 (This, face), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 unhappy | advmod |
| 5 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 made | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 led | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 led | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 led | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 led | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 led | aux:pass |
| 11 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 made | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 led | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 building | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 building | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 building | amod |
| 16 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 led | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dived | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 dived | nsubj |
| 19 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 dived | compound:prt |
| 21 | sorrowfully | sorrowfully | ADV | _ | 19 dived | advmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dived | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 returned | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 returned | cc |
| 27 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 castle | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 father | nmod:poss |
| 30 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 castle | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 father | case |
| 32 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 returned | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | This | face | unhappy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product | |||
| 2 | lead away | past · passive | prince | the great building | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into building=Destination | |||
| 3 | dive down | past | face | the water | sorrowfully property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Location | |||
| 4 | return | past | to face's father's castle result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result |
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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