Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 52

Every one was enchanted, especially the prince, who called her his little foundling; and she danced again quite readily, to please him, though each time her foot touched the floor it seemed as if she trod on sharp knives.

Who acts: prince, mermaid, foot, it · What happens: enchant, call, dance, please, touch, seem · To what, where: one, mermaid, prince, floor, sharp knives · 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, mermaid, foot, it), 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 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enchanted	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 enchanted	aux:pass
4	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 prince	punct
6	especially	especially	ADV	_	8 prince	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enchanted	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 called	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 called	nsubj
11	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 prince	acl:relcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 called	obj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 foundling	nmod:poss
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 foundling	amod
15	foundling	foundling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 danced	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 danced	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 danced	nsubj
19	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 enchanted	conj
20	again	again	ADV	_	19 danced	advmod
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	22 readily	advmod
22	readily	readily	ADV	_	19 danced	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 please	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	25 please	mark
25	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 danced	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 please	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 touched	punct
28	though	though	SCONJ	_	33 touched	mark
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	30 time	det
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 touched	obl:unmarked
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 foot	nmod:poss
32	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 touched	nsubj
33	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 danced	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 floor	det
35	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 touched	obj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 seemed	nsubj
37	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 touched	ccomp
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 trod	mark
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 trod	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 trod	nsubj
41	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 seemed	advcl
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 knives	case
43	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 knives	amod
44	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 trod	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 enchanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enchant	past · passive		every one					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	call	past	the prince		mermaid				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	dance	past	mermaid				again	readily property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	please	to-infinitive	mermaid not said here	prince					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
5	touch	past	mermaid's foot	the floor			time		tree rules
6	seem	past	it						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	tread	past	mermaid			sharp knives			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on knife=Trajectory

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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