Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 46

On many a night, too, when the fishermen, with their torches, were out at sea, she heard them relate so many good things about the doings of the young prince, that she was glad she had saved his life when he had been tossed about half-dead on the waves.

Who acts: fishermen, water, waves · What happens: be, hear, relate, save, toss · To what, where: sea, fishermen, many good things, life, 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 (fishermen, water, waves), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 night	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 night	amod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 night	punct
6	too	too	ADV	_	4 night	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sea	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 sea	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fishermen	det
10	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sea	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 torches	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 torches	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 torches	nmod:poss
14	torches	torch	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fishermen	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 torches	punct
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sea	cop
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 were	compound:prt
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 sea	case
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 night	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heard	nsubj
22	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sea	parataxis
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heard	obj
24	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 heard	xcomp
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 many	advmod
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 things	amod
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 things	amod
28	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 relate	obj
29	about	about	ADP	_	31 doings	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 doings	det
31	doings	doing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 things	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 prince	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 prince	det
34	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 prince	amod
35	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 doings	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 glad	punct
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 glad	mark
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 glad	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 glad	cop
40	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 heard	parataxis
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 saved	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 saved	aux
43	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 glad	ccomp
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 life	nmod:poss
45	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 saved	obj
46	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	50 tossed	advmod
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 tossed	nsubj
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 tossed	aux
49	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 tossed	aux:pass
50	tossed	toss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 saved	advcl
51	about	about	ADP	_	54 dead	case
52	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	54 dead	compound
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 half	punct
54	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 tossed	obl
55	on	on	ADP	_	57 waves	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 waves	det
57	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 tossed	obl:agent
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 night	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fishermen		sea		tree rules
2	hear	past	water	fishermen = fisherman			tree rules
3	relate	infinitive	fishermen = fisherman not said here	many good things		about the doings of the young prince	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
4	is	past	water			glad property	tree rules
5	save	past · perfect	water	prince's life			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
6	toss	past · perfect · passive	the waves	prince		about half dead	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent subject=Theme about dead=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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