Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 84
All that could be reached in the sea they seized upon, and held fast, so that it never escaped from their clutches.
Who acts: branches, root · What happens: reach, seize, hold, not escape, clutch · To what, where: that, sea, clutches
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, root), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 that | det:predet |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 reached | aux:pass |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seized | nsubj |
| 10 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sea | acl:relcl |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 seized | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 held | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 held | cc |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 reached | conj |
| 15 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 held | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 escaped | punct |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 escaped | mark |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | fixed |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 escaped | nsubj |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 escaped | advmod |
| 21 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | conj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 clutches | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 clutches | nmod:poss |
| 24 | clutches | clutch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 escaped | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | could · passive | that | the sea | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | branches = branch | the sea not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | participle | fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not escape | past | root | branches's clutches | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from clutch=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | clutch | branches = branch | nom clutch «act transitive»: poss=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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