Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 42

She would swim much nearer the shore than any of the others ventured to do; indeed once she went quite up the narrow channel under the marble balcony, which threw a broad shadow on the water.

Who acts: water, any, marble balcony · What happens: swim, venture, do, go, throw · To what, where: marble balcony, broad shadow, 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, any, marble balcony), 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	3 swim	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 swim	aux
3	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 nearer	advmod
5	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 swim	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shore	det
7	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nearer	nsubj
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 ventured	mark
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 ventured	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 others	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 others	det
12	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 any	nmod
13	ventured	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nearer	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ventured	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
17	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	18 once	advmod
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 went	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swim	conj
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 went	advmod
22	up	up	ADP	_	25 channel	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 channel	det
24	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 channel	amod
25	channel	channel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
26	under	under	ADP	_	29 balcony	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 balcony	det
28	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 balcony	amod
29	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 threw	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 threw	nsubj
32	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 balcony	acl:relcl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 shadow	det
34	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 shadow	amod
35	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 threw	obj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 water	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 water	det
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 threw	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swim	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim	would	water				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	venture	past	any				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	to-infinitive	any not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	water		the marble balcony	up the narrow channel; once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up channel=Initial_Location
5	throw	past	the marble balcony	a broad shadow	the water		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme on water=Destination

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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