Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 50

Then the little mermaid raised her lovely white arms, stood on the tips of her toes, and glided over the floor, and danced as no one yet had been able to dance.

Who acts: little mermaid · What happens: raise, stand, glide, dance, be · To what, where: lovely white arms, tips, floor

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), 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 raised	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 raised	nsubj
5	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arms	nmod:poss
7	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 arms	amod
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 arms	amod
9	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 raised	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 raised	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 tips	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tips	det
14	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stood	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 toes	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 toes	nmod:poss
17	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tips	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 glided	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 glided	cc
20	glided	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 raised	parataxis
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 floor	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 floor	det
23	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 glided	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 danced	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 danced	cc
26	danced	dance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 glided	conj
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 one	case
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 danced	obl
30	yet	yet	ADV	_	33 able	advmod
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 able	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 able	cop
33	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 danced	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 dance	mark
35	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 able	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 raised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past	the little mermaid	mermaid's lovely white arms		then		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
2	stand	past	the little mermaid not said here		the tips of mermaid's toes			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tip=Location
3	glide	past			the floor			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over floor=Trajectory
4	dance	participle					as no one	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past · perfect				yet	able property	tree rules
6	dance	to-infinitive						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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