Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 47
And she remembered that his head had rested on her bosom, and how heartily she had kissed him; but he knew nothing of all this, and could not even dream of her.
Who acts: water, prince · What happens: remember, rest, kiss, know, not dream, bosom · To what, where: head, bosom, prince, nothing · 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, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 remembered | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 remembered | nsubj |
| 3 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 rested | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rested | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rested | aux |
| 8 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 remembered | ccomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 bosom | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rested | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kissed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 kissed | cc |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 heartily | advmod |
| 15 | heartily | heartily | ADV | _ | 18 kissed | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kissed | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 kissed | aux |
| 18 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 remembered | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kissed | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 knew | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 knew | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 knew | nsubj |
| 23 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remembered | parataxis |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 knew | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 this | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 this | det:predet |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 nothing | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 dream | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 dream | cc |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 dream | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 dream | advmod |
| 32 | even | even | ADV | _ | 33 dream | advmod |
| 33 | dream | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 knew | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 her | case |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 dream | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | water | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rest | past · perfect · passive | prince's head | water's bosom | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on bosom=Location | ||||
| 3 | kiss | past · perfect | water | prince | heartily property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | know | past | prince | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | not dream | could | prince not said here | of water | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | bosom | water | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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