Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 51

Then she applied to her old grandmother, who knew all about the upper world, which she very rightly called the lands above the sea.

Who acts: water, old grandmother · What happens: apply, know, call · To what, where: upper world · 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, old grandmother), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 applied	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 applied	nsubj
3	applied	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 grandmother	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 grandmother	nmod:poss
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grandmother	amod
7	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 applied	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grandmother	acl:relcl
11	all	all	ADV	_	10 knew	advmod
12	about	about	ADP	_	15 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
14	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 world	amod
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knew	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 called	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 called	nsubj:pass
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 called	nsubj:pass
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 rightly	advmod
20	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	21 called	advmod
21	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 world	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lands	det
23	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 called	obj
24	above	above	ADP	_	26 sea	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sea	det
26	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lands	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 applied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	apply	past	water		then	to water's old grandmother	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	know	past	water's old grandmother			about the upper world; all property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about world=Stimulus
3	call	participle · passive		the upper world		rightly property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme land=Result

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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