Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 51
At each moment her beauty became more revealed, and her expressive eyes appealed more directly to the heart than the songs of the slaves.
Who acts: beauty, expressive eyes, slaves · What happens: become, reveal, appeal, sing
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 (beauty, expressive eyes, slaves), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | obl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | nsubj |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 revealed | advmod |
| 8 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 became | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 appealed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 appealed | cc |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | expressive | expressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eyes | amod |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 appealed | nsubj |
| 14 | appealed | appeal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 became | conj |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 directly | advmod |
| 16 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 14 appealed | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 heart | det |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appealed | obl |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 songs | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 songs | det |
| 22 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 appealed | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 slaves | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 slaves | det |
| 25 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 songs | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | mermaid's beauty | moment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reveal | participle | mermaid's beauty not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | appeal | past | mermaid's expressive eyes | to the heart; than the songs of the slaves; directly property | vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to heart=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | sing | the slaves | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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