Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 57
It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.
Who acts: body · What happens: rise up · To what, where: clear pure air
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 (body), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rises | nsubj |
| 2 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 rises | compound:prt |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 6 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 air | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 clear | punct |
| 8 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 air | amod |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rises | obl |
| 10 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 13 stars | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stars | det |
| 12 | glittering | glittering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stars | compound |
| 13 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 air | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | present | body | the clear pure air beyond the glittering stars | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through air=Location |
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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