Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 34
Then the others heard the secret, and very soon it became known to two mermaids whose intimate friend happened to know who the prince was.
Who acts: others, intimate friend, prince · What happens: hear, know, happen, be · To what, where: secret · 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 (others, intimate friend, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 others | det |
| 3 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 secret | det |
| 6 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 known | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 known | cc |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 known | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 known | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 known | aux:pass |
| 13 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heard | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 mermaids | case |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 mermaids | nummod |
| 16 | mermaids | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 known | obl |
| 17 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 friend | nmod:poss |
| 18 | intimate | intimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 friend | amod |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 happened | nsubj |
| 20 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 mermaids | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 know | mark |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 happened | xcomp |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 know | ccomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prince | det |
| 25 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 who | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 who | cop |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the others | the secret | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | know | past · passive | secret | to two mermaids; soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | happen | past | intimate friend | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | intimate friend not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | the prince | tree rules |
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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