Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 83

The branches were long slimy arms, with fingers like flexible worms, moving limb after limb from the root to the top.

Who acts: branches, fingers · What happens: be, move · To what, where: long slimy arms, limb, root

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 (branches, fingers), 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	2 branches	det
2	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 arms	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 arms	cop
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 arms	amod
5	slimy	slimy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 arms	amod
6	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fingers	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 fingers	case
9	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 arms	conj
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 worms	case
11	flexible	flexible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 worms	amod
12	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fingers	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 moving	punct
14	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 fingers	acl
15	limb	limb	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 moving	obj
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 limb	case
17	limb	limb	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 moving	obl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 root	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 root	det
20	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 moving	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 top	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 top	det
23	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 root	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 arms	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the branches	long slimy arms and fingers like flexible worms					tree rules
2	move	gerund	fingers like flexible worms not said here	limb		the root to the top	after limb		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent limb=Theme from root=Trajectory

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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