Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 37
It was built of bright yellow shining stone, with long flights of marble steps, one of which reached quite down to the sea.
Who acts: one · What happens: build, shine, reach · To what, where: palace
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 (one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:5502): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 built | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | aux:pass |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 stone | case |
| 5 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stone | amod |
| 6 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stone | amod |
| 7 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 stone | amod |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flights | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 flights | case |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 flights | amod |
| 12 | flights | flight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 built | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 steps | case |
| 14 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 steps | compound |
| 15 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flights | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reached | punct |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 reached | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 one | nmod |
| 20 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flights | acl:relcl |
| 21 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 down | advmod |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 reached | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 sea | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sea | det |
| 25 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 down | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | palace | of bright yellow shining stone; with long flights of marble steps | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme with flight=Source | ||||
| 2 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | reach | past | one | down property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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