Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 77

Then she heard the bugle sounding through the water, and thought--"He is certainly sailing above, he on whom my wishes depend, and in whose hands I should like to place the happiness of my life.

Who acts: mermaid, bugle, prince, wishes, my · What happens: hear, sound, think, sail, depend, like · To what, where: bugle, water, place, hands · 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 (mermaid, bugle, prince, wishes), 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 heard	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bugle	det
5	bugle	bugle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
6	sounding	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 bugle	acl
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sounding	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thought	cc
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 sailing	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 sailing	punct
15	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sailing	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 sailing	aux
17	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	18 sailing	advmod
18	sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 thought	conj
19	above	above	ADV	_	18 sailing	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 whom	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 whom	nsubj
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 whom	case
23	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 heard	parataxis
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wishes	nmod:poss
25	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 depend	nsubj
26	depend	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 whom	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 like	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 like	cc
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 hands	case
30	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	31 hands	nmod:poss
31	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 like	obl
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 like	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 like	aux
34	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heard	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 place	mark
36	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 like	obj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 happiness	det
38	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 like	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 life	case
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 life	nmod:poss
41	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 happiness	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	mermaid	the bugle		then		tree rules
2	sound	gerund	the bugle not said here		the water			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through water=Location
3	think speech: other	past	mermaid not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sail in a quote	present · progressive	prince				above, certainly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	depend in a quote	present	my wishes					vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	like in a quote	should	mermaid	place	hands			tree rules
7	wish in a quote		my					nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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