Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 44
She saw him many times of an evening sailing in a pleasant boat, with music playing and flags waving.
Who acts: water, evening, flags · What happens: see, sail, wave · To what, where: prince, pleasant boat
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, evening, flags), 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 | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 times | amod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 evening | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 evening | det |
| 8 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 times | nmod |
| 9 | sailing | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 evening | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 boat | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 boat | det |
| 12 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 boat | amod |
| 13 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sailing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 playing | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 playing | case |
| 16 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 playing | compound |
| 17 | playing | playing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flags | cc |
| 19 | flags | flag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 playing | conj |
| 20 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 flags | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | water | prince | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | sail | gerund | a evening not said here | a pleasant boat | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wave | gerund | flags not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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