Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 87

She laid her hands together across her bosom, and then she darted forward as a fish shoots through the water, between the supple arms and fingers of the ugly polypi, which were stretched out on each side of her.

Who acts: courage, fish · What happens: lay, dart, shoot, stretch out, bosom · To what, where: hands, bosom, water, ugly polypi, side

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, fish), 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 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	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	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 laid	obj
5	together	together	ADV	_	2 laid	advmod
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 bosom	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bosom	nmod:poss
8	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 darted	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 darted	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 darted	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 darted	nsubj
13	darted	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	conj
14	forward	forward	ADV	_	13 darted	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 shoots	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fish	det
17	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shoots	nsubj
18	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 darted	advcl
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 water	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shoots	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 arms	punct
23	between	between	ADP	_	26 arms	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 arms	det
25	supple	supple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 arms	amod
26	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 shoots	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fingers	cc
28	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 arms	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 polypi	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 polypi	det
31	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 polypi	amod
32	polypi	polypi	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 arms	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 stretched	punct
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 stretched	nsubj:pass
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 stretched	aux:pass
36	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 polypi	acl:relcl
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 stretched	compound:prt
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 side	case
39	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	40 side	det
40	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stretched	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 her	case
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 side	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	courage	courage's hands	courage's bosom		together property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Result
2	dart	past	courage			then	forward property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shoot	present	a fish		the water		between the supple arms of the ugly polypi and fingers	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent through water=Destination
4	stretch out	past · passive		the ugly polypi	each side of courage			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	bosom		courage					nom bosom «state 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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