Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 1

She now came to a space of marshy ground in the wood, where large, fat water-snakes were rolling in the mire, and showing their ugly, drab-colored bodies.

Who acts: She, fat water snakes · What happens: come, roll, show, color · To what, where: space, mire, ugly colored bodies

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (She, fat water snakes), 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	3 came	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 space	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 space	det
6	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	marshy	marshy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ground	amod
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 space	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 wood	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wood	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ground	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 large	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 large	advmod
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wood	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rolling	punct
17	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 snakes	amod
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 snakes	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 water	punct
20	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rolling	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 rolling	aux
22	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 large	advcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 mire	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mire	det
25	mire	mire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rolling	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 showing	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 showing	cc
28	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 bodies	nmod:poss
30	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 bodies	amod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ugly	punct
32	drab	drab	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 colored	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 drab	punct
34	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 bodies	amod
35	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 showing	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past	She		a space of marshy ground in the wood	now	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to space=Initial_Location
2	roll	past · progressive	fat water snakes		the mire		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mire=Trajectory
3	show	gerund	She not said here	snakes's ugly colored bodies			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent body=Recipient
4	color	participle					vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=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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