Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 59

She beckoned to them, and then they recognized her, and told her how she had grieved them.

Who acts: mermaid, sisters · What happens: beckon, recognize, tell, grieve · To what, where: sisters, mermaid · 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 (mermaid, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beckoned	nsubj
2	beckoned	beckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beckoned	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 recognized	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 recognized	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 recognized	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 recognized	nsubj
9	recognized	recognize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beckoned	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 recognized	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beckoned	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 grieved	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 grieved	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 grieved	aux
18	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 told	ccomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 grieved	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beckoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	beckon	past	mermaid		sisters = sister		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
2	recognize	past	sisters = sister	mermaid		then	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	past	mermaid not said here		mermaid		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	grieve	past · perfect · passive		mermaid			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer they=Result

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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