Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 45

She peeped out from among the green rushes, and if the wind caught her long silvery-white veil, those who saw it believed it to be a swan, spreading out its wings.

Who acts: water, wind, swan · What happens: peep out, catch, see, believe, be, spread out · To what, where: long white veil, veil, swan, wings · Speech: someone speaks here

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, wind, swan), 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 peeped	nsubj
2	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 peeped	compound:prt
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 rushes	case
5	among	among	ADP	_	8 rushes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rushes	det
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rushes	amod
8	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 peeped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 caught	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 caught	cc
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 caught	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wind	det
13	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 caught	nsubj
14	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 peeped	parataxis
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 veil	nmod:poss
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 veil	amod
17	silvery	silvery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 white	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 silvery	punct
19	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 veil	amod
20	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 caught	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 those	punct
22	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 caught	obl
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 those	acl:relcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 believed	nsubj
26	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 saw	ccomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 believed	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	31 swan	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 swan	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 swan	det
31	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 believed	ccomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 spreading	punct
33	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 swan	acl
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 spreading	compound:prt
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 wings	nmod:poss
36	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 spreading	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 peeped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	peep out	past	water		from the green rushes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from rush=Theme
2	catch a condition, not said to happen	past	the wind	water's long white veil	those obl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme
3	see	past				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	believe	past	wind	veil		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	is a	to-infinitive		a swan		tree rules
6	spread out	gerund	a swan not said here	wind's wings		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=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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