Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 42

He fixed his coal-black eyes upon her so earnestly that she cast down her own, and then became aware that her fish's tail was gone, and that she had as pretty a pair of white legs and tiny feet as any little maiden could have; but she had no clothes, so she wrapped herself in her long, thick hair.

Who acts: prince, sun, tail, little maiden · What happens: fix, cast down, become, be, have, wrap · To what, where: black eyes, pair, clothes, sun, long thick hair

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 (prince, sun, tail, little maiden), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fixed	nsubj
2	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
4	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 black	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 coal	punct
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eyes	amod
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fixed	obj
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fixed	obl
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 earnestly	advmod
11	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	14 cast	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 cast	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cast	nsubj
14	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fixed	advcl
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 cast	compound:prt
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 own	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cast	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 became	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 became	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 became	advmod
21	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fixed	parataxis
22	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 became	xcomp
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 gone	mark
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 fish	nmod:poss
25	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tail	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 fish	case
27	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gone	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 gone	cop
29	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 aware	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 had	cc
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 had	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 became	conj
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 pretty	advmod
36	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	38 pair	advmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 pair	det
38	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 legs	case
40	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 legs	amod
41	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 pair	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 feet	cc
43	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 feet	amod
44	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 legs	conj
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 have	mark
46	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	48 maiden	det
47	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 maiden	amod
48	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 have	nsubj
49	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 have	aux
50	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 had	advcl
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 had	punct
52	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 had	cc
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 had	nsubj
54	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fixed	conj
55	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	56 clothes	det
56	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	54 had	obj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 wrapped	punct
58	so	so	ADV	_	60 wrapped	advmod
59	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 wrapped	nsubj
60	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fixed	conj
61	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	60 wrapped	obj
62	in	in	ADP	_	67 hair	case
63	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	67 hair	nmod:poss
64	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 hair	amod
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 long	punct
66	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 hair	amod
67	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 wrapped	obl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fixed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	past	prince	prince's black eyes			upon sun	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	cast down	past	sun				earnestly, own property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	become	past				then	aware property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	sun's fish's tail				gone property	tree rules
5	have	past	sun	a pair of white legs and tiny feet				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient
6	have	could	any little maiden					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	have	past	sun	no clothes				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
8	wrap	past	sun	sun	sun's long thick hair			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in hair=Destination

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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