Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 46
Beautiful female slaves, dressed in silk and gold, stepped forward and sang before the prince and his royal parents: one sang better than all the others, and the prince clapped his hands and smiled at her.
Who acts: Beautiful female slaves, one, prince · What happens: dress, step forward, sing, clap, smile · To what, where: Beautiful female slaves, silk, hands
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 (Beautiful female slaves, one, prince), 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 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 slaves | amod |
| 2 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 slaves | amod |
| 3 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stepped | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dressed | punct |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 slaves | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 silk | case |
| 7 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dressed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gold | cc |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 silk | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 slaves | punct |
| 11 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 11 stepped | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sang | cc |
| 14 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stepped | conj |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 prince | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 prince | det |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sang | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 parents | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 parents | nmod:poss |
| 20 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 parents | amod |
| 21 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 prince | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 sang | punct |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 sang | nsubj |
| 24 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stepped | conj |
| 25 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 sang | xcomp |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 others | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 others | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 others | det |
| 29 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 better | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 clapped | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 clapped | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 prince | det |
| 33 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 clapped | nsubj |
| 34 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sang | conj |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 hands | nmod:poss |
| 36 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 clapped | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 smiled | cc |
| 38 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 clapped | conj |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 her | case |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 smiled | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | participle | Beautiful female slaves not said here | silk and gold | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | step forward | past | Beautiful female slaves | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | Beautiful female slaves not said here | before the prince and prince's royal parents | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before prince=Location | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | one | good property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | clap | past | the prince | prince's hands | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | ||||
| 6 | smile | past | the prince not said here | at sun | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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