Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 31
When at last the magic draught was ready, it looked like the clearest water. "
Who acts: magic draught, draught · What happens: be, look · To what, where: last
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 (magic draught, draught), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 ready | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ready | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 draught | det |
| 5 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 draught | amod |
| 6 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ready | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ready | cop |
| 8 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ready | conj |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 14 | clearest | clear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 water | amod |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ready | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the magic draught | last | ready property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | past | draught | like the clearest water | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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