Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 43

The prince asked her who she was, and where she came from, and she looked at him mildly and sorrowfully with her deep blue eyes; but she could not speak.

Who acts: prince, sun · What happens: ask, come, look, not speak · To what, where: sun · 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 (prince, sun), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	iobj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 asked	obj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 was	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 who	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 came	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	12 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 looked	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looked	nsubj
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	parataxis
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looked	obl
20	mildly	mildly	ADV	_	17 looked	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sorrowfully	cc
22	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	_	20 mildly	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	27 eyes	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 eyes	nmod:poss
25	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 eyes	amod
26	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 eyes	amod
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 looked	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 speak	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 speak	cc
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 speak	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 speak	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 speak	advmod
33	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the prince	sun		tree rules
2	come	past	sun			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	past	sun		at prince; with sun's deep blue eyes; mildly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
4	not speak speech: other	could	sun			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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