Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 75

The whole court applauded her with hands and tails; and for a moment her heart felt quite gay, for she knew she had the loveliest voice of any on earth or in the sea.

Who acts: whole court, heart, mermaid · What happens: applaud, feel, know, have · To what, where: mermaid, loveliest voice · 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 (whole court, heart, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 court	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 court	amod
3	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 applauded	nsubj
4	applauded	applaud	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 applauded	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 hands	case
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 applauded	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tails	cc
9	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hands	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 felt	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 felt	cc
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 moment	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 moment	det
14	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 felt	obl
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heart	nmod:poss
16	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 felt	nsubj
17	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 applauded	conj
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 gay	advmod
19	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 felt	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knew	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 knew	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 knew	nsubj
23	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 felt	parataxis
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 knew	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 voice	det
27	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 voice	amod
28	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 any	case
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 voice	nmod
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 earth	case
32	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 any	nmod
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 sea	cc
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 sea	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sea	det
36	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 earth	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 applauded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	applaud	past	the whole court	mermaid		with hands and tails	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	feel	past	mermaid's heart		moment	gay property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	know	past	mermaid				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	have	past	mermaid	the loveliest voice of any			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient

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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