Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 43

Here she would sit and watch the young prince, who thought himself quite alone in the bright moonlight.

Who acts: water, young prince · What happens: sit, watch, think · To what, where: young prince, prince

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, young 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sit	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sit	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 watch	cc
6	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sit	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 prince	amod
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watch	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 prince	acl:relcl
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 thought	obj
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 alone	advmod
15	alone	alone	ADV	_	12 thought	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 moonlight	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 moonlight	det
18	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 moonlight	amod
19	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 alone	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	would	water		here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	watch	infinitive	water not said here	the young prince			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	the young prince	prince		alone property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=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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