Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 57

While at the prince's palace, and when all the household were asleep, she would go and sit on the broad marble steps; for it eased her burning feet to bathe them in the cold sea-water; and then she thought of all those below in the deep.

Who acts: household, mermaid · What happens: be, go, sit, ease, burn, bathe · To what, where: mermaid, feet

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 (household, 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	6 palace	mark
2	at	at	ADP	_	6 palace	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 palace	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 prince	case
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 asleep	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 asleep	cc
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 asleep	mark
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 household	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 household	det
12	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asleep	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 asleep	cop
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 palace	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 palace	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sit	cc
20	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 go	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	25 steps	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 steps	det
23	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 steps	amod
24	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 steps	compound
25	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sit	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 eased	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 eased	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 eased	nsubj
29	eased	ease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 go	parataxis
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 eased	obj
31	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 eased	advcl
32	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 burning	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 bathe	mark
34	bathe	bathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 burning	advcl
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 bathe	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	41 water	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 water	det
38	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 water	amod
39	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 water	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 sea	punct
41	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bathe	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 thought	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 thought	cc
44	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 thought	advmod
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 thought	nsubj
46	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 go	advcl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 those	case
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 those	det:predet
49	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	46 thought	obl
50	below	below	ADV	_	49 those	advmod
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 deep	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 deep	det
53	deep	deep	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 those	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	all household			asleep property	tree rules
2	go	would	mermaid				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	infinitive	mermaid not said here			on the broad marble steps	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location
4	ease	past	household	mermaid			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	burn	gerund	household not said here	feet			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
6	bathe	to-infinitive	household not said here	feet = foot		in the cold sea water	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination in water=Theme
7	think speech: other	past	mermaid		then	of those	vn focus-87.1-1 «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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