Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 31

She saw the fruits in the garden ripen till they were gathered, the snow on the tops of the mountains melt away; but she never saw the prince, and therefore she returned home, always more sorrowful than before.

Who acts: face, snow · What happens: see, ripen, gather, melt away, not see, return · To what, where: fruits, garden, prince · Speech: someone speaks here

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, snow), 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	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fruits	det
4	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ripen	obl
8	ripen	ripen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saw	ccomp
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 gathered	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gathered	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gathered	aux:pass
12	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 melt	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gathered	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 snow	det
15	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 melt	nsubj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 tops	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tops	det
18	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 snow	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 mountains	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mountains	det
21	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tops	nmod
22	melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ripen	parataxis
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 melt	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 saw	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 saw	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saw	nsubj
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 saw	advmod
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 prince	det
30	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 saw	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 returned	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 returned	cc
33	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	35 returned	advmod
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 returned	nsubj
35	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 saw	conj
36	home	home	ADV	_	35 returned	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sorrowful	punct
38	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	40 sorrowful	advmod
39	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 sorrowful	advmod
40	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 saw	conj
41	than	than	ADP	_	42 before	case
42	before	before	ADV	_	40 sorrowful	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	face	the fruits			tree rules
2	ripen	infinitive			the garden		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	gather	past · passive		fruits = fruit			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	melt away	present	the snow on the tops of the mountains			away property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	not see	past	face	the prince			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus
6	return	past	face			home, therefore property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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