Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 44

Every step she took was as the witch had said it would be, she felt as if treading upon the points of needles or sharp knives; but she bore it willingly, and stepped as lightly by the prince's side as a soap-bubble, so that he and all who saw her wondered at her graceful-swaying movements.

Who acts: sun, step · What happens: take, say, be, feel, tread, bear · To what, where: step, points, all, swaying movements, needles · 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 (sun, step), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 step	det
2	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj:pass
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 step	acl:relcl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	aux:pass
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 said	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 witch	det
8	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	aux
10	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 be	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 be	aux
13	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 felt	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 felt	nsubj
16	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 treading	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 treading	mark
19	treading	tread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 felt	advcl
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 points	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 points	det
22	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 treading	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 needles	case
24	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 points	nmod
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 knives	cc
26	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 knives	amod
27	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 needles	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 bore	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 bore	cc
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bore	nsubj
31	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bore	obj
33	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	31 bore	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 stepped	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 stepped	cc
36	stepped	step	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 bore	conj
37	as	as	ADP	_	38 lightly	case
38	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	36 stepped	obl
39	by	by	ADP	_	43 side	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 prince	det
41	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 side	nmod:poss
42	's	's	PART	_	41 prince	case
43	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stepped	obl
44	as	as	ADP	_	48 bubble	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 bubble	det
46	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 bubble	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 soap	punct
48	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stepped	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 saw	punct
50	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	54 all	mark
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 so	fixed
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 all	nsubj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 all	cc
54	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	56 saw	obl
55	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 saw	nsubj
56	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 bore	conj
57	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 wondered	nsubj
58	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 saw	ccomp
59	at	at	ADP	_	64 movements	case
60	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 movements	nmod:poss
61	graceful	graceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 swaying	amod
62	-	-	PUNCT	_	61 graceful	punct
63	swaying	sway	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	64 movements	amod
64	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 wondered	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	sun	every step not said here			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		every step			tree rules
3	be	would	step				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	feel	past	sun				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	tread	gerund	sun not said here		the points of needles or sharp knives		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon point=Trajectory
6	bear	past	sun	step		willingly property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	step	participle	sun not said here			by the prince's side; as a soap bubble	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory
8	see	past		all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	wonder speech: ask	past	sun		sun's swaying movements		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10	sway	gerund					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	point			needles or sharp knives			nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient
12	move		sun				nom movement «act 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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