Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 88
She saw that each held in its grasp something it had seized with its numerous little arms, as if they were iron bands.
Who acts: courage, polypi · What happens: see, hold, seize, be · To what, where: each, something, 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, 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 held | mark |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 held | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 saw | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 something | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 something | nmod:poss |
| 8 | grasp | grasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 something | compound |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 held | obl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seized | aux |
| 12 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 something | acl:relcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 arms | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 arms | nmod:poss |
| 15 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 arms | amod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 arms | amod |
| 17 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 seized | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bands | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 bands | case |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 bands | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bands | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 bands | cop |
| 23 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bands | amod |
| 24 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 seized | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | courage | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hold | participle · passive | each | something | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in something=Location | ||||
| 3 | seize | past · perfect · passive | side | with side's numerous little arms | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | polypi | as iron bands | tree rules |
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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