Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 56

She climbed with the prince to the tops of high mountains; and although her tender feet bled so that even her steps were marked, she only laughed, and followed him till they could see the clouds beneath them looking like a flock of birds travelling to distant lands.

Who acts: mermaid, feet, birds · What happens: climb, bleed, mark, laugh, follow, see · To what, where: tops, tender feet, steps, prince, clouds, distant lands

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 (mermaid, feet, birds), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 prince	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 tops	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tops	det
8	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 climbed	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 mountains	case
10	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mountains	amod
11	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tops	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 bled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bled	cc
14	although	although	SCONJ	_	18 bled	mark
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 feet	nmod:poss
16	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feet	compound
17	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bled	nsubj:pass
18	bled	bleed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 climbed	conj
19	so	so	SCONJ	_	29 laughed	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 marked	mark
21	even	even	ADV	_	23 steps	advmod
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 steps	nmod:poss
23	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 marked	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 marked	aux:pass
25	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 laughed	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 marked	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 laughed	nsubj
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 laughed	advmod
29	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bled	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 followed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 followed	cc
32	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 climbed	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 followed	obj
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	37 see	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 see	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 see	aux
37	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 followed	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 clouds	det
39	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 see	obj
40	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	42 looking	mark
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 looking	nsubj
42	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 see	advcl
43	like	like	ADP	_	45 flock	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 flock	det
45	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 looking	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 birds	case
47	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 flock	nmod
48	travelling	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 birds	acl
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 lands	case
50	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 lands	amod
51	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 travelling	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb	past	mermaid		the tops of high mountains	with the prince	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination
2	bleed	participle · passive		mermaid's tender feet			vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
3	mark	past · passive		mermaid's steps			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
4	laugh	past	mermaid				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	follow	past	mermaid not said here	prince			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	see	could	feet = foot	the clouds			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloud=Stimulus
7	look	gerund	feet = foot			like a flock of birds	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	travel	gerund	birds not said here		distant lands		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to land=Destination
9	step		mermaid				nom step «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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