Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 4

She called the ugly water-snakes her little chickens, and allowed them to crawl all over her bosom.

Who acts: toad, snakes · What happens: call, allow, crawl, bosom · To what, where: ugly water snakes, snakes, bosom · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (toad, 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	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snakes	det
4	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 snakes	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snakes	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 water	punct
7	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 called	obj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 chickens	nmod:poss
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 chickens	amod
10	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 called	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 allowed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 allowed	cc
13	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 allowed	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 crawl	mark
16	crawl	crawl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 allowed	xcomp
17	all	all	ADV	_	20 bosom	advmod
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 bosom	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 bosom	nmod:poss
20	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crawl	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	call	past	toad		the ugly water snakes	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent snake=Recipient
2	allow	past	toad not said here	snakes = snake		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	crawl not said to happen	to-infinitive	snakes = snake not said here	toad's bosom		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bosom=Theme
4	bosom		toad			nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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