Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 41
Now that she knew where he lived, she spent many an evening and many a night on the water near the palace.
Who acts: water, place · What happens: know, live, spend · To what, where: many, 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 (water, place), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 knew | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 knew | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 lived | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spent | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spent | nsubj |
| 10 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | conj |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spent | obj |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 evening | det |
| 13 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 many | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 many | cc |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 many | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 night | det |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spent | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spent | obl |
| 21 | near | near | ADP | _ | 23 palace | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 palace | det |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spent | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | water | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | live | past | place | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spend | past | water | many | night | on the water goal; near the palace | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent many=Asset on water=Goal |
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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