Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 38

She stole into the garden, took a flower from the flower-beds of each of her sisters, kissed her hand a thousand times towards the palace, and then rose up through the dark blue waters.

Who acts: polypi · What happens: steal, take, kiss, rise up · To what, where: garden, flower, flower beds, hand, dark blue waters

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), 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 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 garden	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 garden	det
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 took	punct
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stole	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 flower	det
9	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	14 beds	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 beds	det
12	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 beds	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 flower	punct
14	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 took	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 each	case
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 beds	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 sisters	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sisters	nmod:poss
19	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 each	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 kissed	punct
21	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 took	conj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hand	nmod:poss
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kissed	obj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 thousand	det
25	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 times	nummod
26	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 kissed	obl:unmarked
27	towards	towards	ADP	_	29 palace	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 palace	det
29	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kissed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 rose	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 rose	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 rose	advmod
33	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 took	conj
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 rose	compound:prt
35	through	through	ADP	_	39 waters	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 waters	det
37	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 waters	amod
38	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 waters	amod
39	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 rose	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	polypi		the garden			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past		a flower	the flower beds of each			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent flower=Theme from bed=Initial_Location
3	kiss	past		polypi's hand		time	towards the palace	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent
4	rise up	past			the dark blue waters	then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through water=Location

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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