Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 79
And then the little mermaid went out from her garden, and took the road to the foaming whirlpools, behind which the sorceress lived.
Who acts: little mermaid, foaming, sorceress · What happens: go out, take, whirlpool, live · To what, where: garden, road
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, foaming, sorceress), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 went | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mermaid | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mermaid | amod |
| 5 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 garden | nmod:poss |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 road | det |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 16 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 19 whirlpools | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 foaming | det |
| 18 | foaming | foaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 whirlpools | nsubj |
| 19 | whirlpools | whirlpool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lived | punct |
| 21 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 lived | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sorceress | det |
| 24 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lived | nsubj |
| 25 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 whirlpools | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the little mermaid | mermaid's garden | then | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | take | past | the little mermaid not said here | the road | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | ||||
| 3 | whirlpool | present | the foaming | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | live | past | the sorceress | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind which=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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