Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 49
They could fly over the sea in ships, and mount the high hills which were far above the clouds; and the lands they possessed, their woods and their fields, stretched far away beyond the reach of her sight.
Who acts: beings, high hills, water · What happens: fly, mount, be, possess, stretch, sight · To what, where: lands, sea, high hills, clouds
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 (beings, high hills, water), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fly | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fly | aux |
| 3 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fly | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 ships | case |
| 8 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fly | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mount | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mount | cc |
| 11 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fly | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hills | det |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hills | amod |
| 14 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mount | obj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 clouds | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 clouds | cop |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 clouds | advmod |
| 18 | above | above | ADP | _ | 20 clouds | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 clouds | det |
| 20 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hills | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 lands | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lands | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lands | det |
| 24 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fly | obl |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 possessed | nsubj |
| 26 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 lands | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 woods | punct |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 woods | nmod:poss |
| 29 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 lands | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 fields | cc |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 fields | nmod:poss |
| 32 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 lands | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 stretched | punct |
| 34 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 lands | conj |
| 35 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 away | advmod |
| 36 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 stretched | advmod |
| 37 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 39 reach | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 reach | det |
| 39 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 stretched | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 sight | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 sight | nmod:poss |
| 42 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 reach | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | could | beings = being | the lands and beings's woods and beings's fields | the sea | in ships | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Location | ||
| 2 | mount | infinitive | beings = being not said here | the high hills | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the high hills | the clouds | far property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | possess | past | beings = being | the lands and beings's woods and beings's fields not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot land=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stretch | participle | beings = being not said here | beyond the reach of water's sight; away property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | sight | water | nom sight «cognition 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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