Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 37

She saw that in her father's palace the torches in the ballroom were extinguished, and all within asleep; but she did not venture to go in to them, for now she was dumb and going to leave them forever, she felt as if her heart would break.

Who acts: polypi, torches, heart · What happens: see, be, not venture, go in, go, leave · To what, where: palace, torches

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 (polypi, torches, heart), 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	_	8 palace	mark
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 palace	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 father	case
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 torches	det
10	torches	torch	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 extinguished	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 ballroom	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ballroom	det
13	ballroom	ballroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 torches	nmod
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 extinguished	cop
15	extinguished	extinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 palace	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asleep	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 asleep	cc
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 asleep	nsubj
19	within	within	ADP	_	20 asleep	case
20	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 venture	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 venture	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 venture	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 venture	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 venture	advmod
26	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saw	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 go	mark
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 venture	xcomp
29	in	in	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 go	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 dumb	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 dumb	mark
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 dumb	advmod
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 dumb	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 dumb	cop
37	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 venture	parataxis
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 going	cc
39	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 dumb	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 leave	mark
41	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 going	xcomp
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 leave	obj
43	forever	forever	ADV	_	41 leave	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 felt	punct
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 felt	nsubj
46	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 break	mark
48	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 break	mark
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 heart	nmod:poss
50	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 break	nsubj
51	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 break	aux
52	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 felt	ccomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	polypi	polypi's father's palace				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus
2	is	past	the torches in the ballroom	polypi's father's palace not said here			extinguished property	tree rules
3	not venture	past · do-support	polypi					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go in	to-infinitive	polypi not said here		torches = torch			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location
5	is	past	polypi			now	dumb property	tree rules
6	go	gerund	polypi not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	leave	to-infinitive	polypi not said here	torches = torch			forever property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	feel	past	polypi					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	break a condition, not said to happen	would	polypi's heart					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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