Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 40

Then the little mermaid drank the magic draught, and it seemed as if a two-edged sword went through her delicate body: she fell into a swoon, and lay like one dead.

Who acts: little mermaid, it, edged sword, mermaid · What happens: drink, seem, edge, go, fall, lay · To what, where: magic draught, delicate body, swoon

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 (little mermaid, it, edged sword, mermaid), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 drank	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mermaid	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mermaid	amod
4	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drank	nsubj
5	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 draught	det
7	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 draught	amod
8	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drank	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seemed	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seemed	nsubj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drank	parataxis
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 went	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 went	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sword	det
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 edged	nummod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 two	punct
18	edged	edge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 sword	amod
19	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seemed	advcl
21	through	through	ADP	_	24 body	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 body	nmod:poss
23	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 body	amod
24	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 fell	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fell	nsubj
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drank	parataxis
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 swoon	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 swoon	det
30	swoon	swoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lay	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lay	cc
33	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 fell	conj
34	like	like	ADP	_	36 dead	case
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 dead	nummod
36	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lay	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	the little mermaid	the magic draught		then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Patient
2	seem	past	it					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	edge	participle						vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
4	go	past	a edged sword		sword's delicate body			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through body=Initial_Location
5	fall	past	mermaid				into a swoon result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into swoon=Result
6	lay	infinitive	mermaid not said here				like one dead	vn create-26.4 «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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