Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 8

The little mermaid now perceived that the crew were in danger; even she herself was obliged to be careful to avoid the beams and planks of the wreck which lay scattered on the water.

Who acts: little mermaid, crew · What happens: perceive, be, oblige, avoid, scatter, beam · To what, where: danger, mermaid, beams, wreck, water

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, crew), 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 mermaid	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mermaid	amod
3	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 perceived	nsubj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 perceived	advmod
5	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 danger	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crew	det
8	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 danger	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 danger	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 danger	case
11	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 perceived	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 obliged	punct
13	even	even	ADV	_	14 she	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 obliged	nsubj:pass
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 she	conj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 obliged	aux:pass
17	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 perceived	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	20 careful	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 careful	cop
20	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 obliged	xcomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 avoid	mark
22	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 careful	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 beams	det
24	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 avoid	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 planks	cc
26	planks	plank	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 beams	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 wreck	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wreck	det
29	wreck	wreck	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 beams	nmod
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 scattered	nsubj:pass
31	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 scattered	aux:pass
32	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 wreck	acl:relcl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 water	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 water	det
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 scattered	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 perceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	the little mermaid			now		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the crew		danger			tree rules
3	oblige	past · passive		mermaid				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is	to-infinitive					careful property	tree rules
5	avoid	to-infinitive		the beams of the wreck and planks				vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent beam=Location
6	scatter	past · passive		the wreck	the water			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on water=Destination
7	beam			the wreck				nom beam «communication transitive»: of=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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