Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 86

She fastened her long flowing hair round her head, so that the polypi might not seize hold of it.

Who acts: courage, polypi · What happens: fasten, flow, not seize, hold · To what, where: long flowing hair, hold

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 (courage, polypi), 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	2 fastened	nsubj
2	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hair	nmod:poss
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
5	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 hair	amod
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fastened	obj
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 head	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fastened	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seize	punct
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 seize	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 polypi	det
14	polypi	polypi	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seize	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 seize	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 seize	advmod
17	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fastened	conj
18	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seize	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hold	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fasten	past	courage	courage's long flowing hair	round courage's head	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	flow	gerund				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not seize	might	the polypi	hold of hold		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
4	hold			hold		nom hold «act 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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