Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 81

Through the midst of these crushing whirlpools the little mermaid was obliged to pass, to reach the dominions of the sea witch; and also for a long distance the only road lay right across a quantity of warm, bubbling mire, called by the witch her turfmoor.

Who acts: only road, mire · What happens: crush, whirlpool, oblige, pass, reach, lie · To what, where: midst, little mermaid, dominions, quantity, mire, turfmoor · 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 (only road, mire), 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	Through	through	ADP	_	3 midst	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 midst	det
3	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whirlpools	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 these	case
5	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 midst	nmod
6	crushing	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 whirlpools	nsubj
7	whirlpools	whirlpool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mermaid	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mermaid	amod
10	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 obliged	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 obliged	aux:pass
12	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 whirlpools	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 pass	mark
14	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 obliged	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reach	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 reach	mark
17	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 pass	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dominions	det
19	dominions	dominion	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 reach	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 witch	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 witch	det
22	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 witch	compound
23	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dominions	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 lay	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 lay	cc
26	also	also	ADV	_	34 lay	advmod
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 distance	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 distance	det
29	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 distance	amod
30	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lay	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 road	det
32	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 road	amod
33	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lay	nsubj
34	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 whirlpools	parataxis
35	right	right	ADV	_	38 quantity	advmod
36	across	across	ADP	_	38 quantity	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 quantity	det
38	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lay	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 warm	case
40	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 quantity	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 bubbling	punct
42	bubbling	bubble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 lay	advcl
43	mire	mire	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 bubbling	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 called	punct
45	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 mire	acl
46	by	by	ADP	_	48 witch	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 witch	det
48	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 called	obl
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 turfmoor	nmod:poss
50	turfmoor	turfmoor	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 called	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 whirlpools	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	crush	gerund					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	whirlpool	present			the midst of these		tree rules
3	oblige	past · passive		the little mermaid			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	pass	to-infinitive					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	reach	to-infinitive		the dominions of the sea witch			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent dominion=Theme
6	lie	past	the only road	a quantity of warm		for a long distance	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location quantity=Theme
7	bubble	gerund	the only road not said here	mire			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mire=Source
8	call	participle	mire not said here	mermaid's turfmoor		by the witch	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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