Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 65
Then the little mermaid sighed, and looked sorrowfully at her fish's tail. "
Who acts: little mermaid · What happens: sigh, look
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 (little mermaid), 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 | 5 sighed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mermaid | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mermaid | amod |
| 4 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sighed | nsubj |
| 5 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looked | cc |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sighed | conj |
| 9 | sorrowfully | sorrowfully | ADV | _ | 8 looked | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 tail | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fish | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tail | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 fish | case |
| 14 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sighed | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | the little mermaid | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the little mermaid not said here | at mermaid's fish's tail; sorrowfully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tail=Theme |
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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