Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 80

She had never been that way before: neither flowers nor grass grew there; nothing but bare, gray, sandy ground stretched out to the whirlpool, where the water, like foaming mill-wheels, whirled round everything that it seized, and cast it into the fathomless deep.

Who acts: mermaid, flowers, sorceress · What happens: not be, grow, stretch out, foam, whirl, seize · To what, where: way, sandy ground, whirlpool, mill wheels, water, everything

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, flowers, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 way	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 way	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 way	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 way	cop
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	before	before	ADV	_	6 way	advmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 flowers	punct
9	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	10 flowers	det
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grew	nsubj
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	12 grass	cc
12	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flowers	conj
13	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 way	acl:relcl
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 grew	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 nothing	punct
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 way	parataxis
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 bare	cc
18	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nothing	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gray	punct
20	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nothing	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ground	punct
22	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ground	amod
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	conj
24	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 ground	acl
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 stretched	compound:prt
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 whirlpool	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 whirlpool	det
28	whirlpool	whirlpool	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stretched	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 whirled	punct
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 whirled	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 water	det
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 whirled	nsubj:pass
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 foaming	punct
34	like	like	SCONJ	_	35 foaming	mark
35	foaming	foam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 water	conj
36	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wheels	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 mill	punct
38	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 foaming	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 whirled	punct
40	whirled	whirl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 whirlpool	acl:relcl
41	round	round	ADP	_	42 everything	case
42	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	40 whirled	obl
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 seized	mark
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 seized	nsubj
45	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 everything	acl:relcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 cast	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 cast	cc
48	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 way	conj
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 cast	obj
50	into	into	ADP	_	53 deep	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 deep	det
52	fathomless	fathomless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 deep	amod
53	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 cast	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	past · perfect	mermaid	that way and sandy ground		before property	tree rules
2	grow	past	neither flowers nor grass	that way and sandy ground not said here	there		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
3	stretch out	participle		sandy ground not said here	the whirlpool		vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to whirlpool=Location
4	foam	gerund		mill wheels			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location wheel=Theme
5	whirl	participle · passive		the water	everything		vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme round everything=Destination
6	seize	past	sorceress				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	cast	infinitive	mermaid not said here	sorceress	the fathomless deep		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into deep=Product

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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