Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 58

Once during the night her sisters came up arm-in-arm, singing sorrowfully, as they floated on the water.

Who acts: sisters · What happens: come up, sing, float · To what, where: arm, water

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 (sisters), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 came	advmod
2	during	during	ADP	_	4 night	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sisters	nmod:poss
6	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 came	compound:prt
9	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 arm	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 arm	case
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 in	punct
13	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arm	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 singing	punct
15	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 came	advcl
16	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	_	15 singing	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 floated	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 floated	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 floated	nsubj
20	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 water	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 water	det
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 floated	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come up	past	mermaid's sisters	arm and arm		once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	gerund	mermaid's sisters not said here			sorrowfully property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	float	past	sisters = sister		the water		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=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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