Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 60

After that, they came to the same place every night; and once she saw in the distance her old grandmother, who had not been to the surface of the sea for many years, and the old Sea King, her father, with his crown on his head.

Who acts: sisters, mermaid, old Sea King, King · What happens: come, see, have, not be, father, crown · To what, where: same place, old grandmother, head

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, mermaid, old Sea King, King), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 came	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 that	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 place	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 place	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 place	amod
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl:unmarked
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
14	once	once	SCONJ	_	16 saw	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 distance	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 distance	det
19	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obl
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 grandmother	nmod:poss
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grandmother	amod
22	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 who	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 grandmother	nmod
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 who	conj
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 surface	advmod
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 surface	cop
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 surface	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 surface	det
30	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 sea	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sea	det
33	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 surface	nmod
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 years	case
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 years	amod
36	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sea	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 father	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 father	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 King	det
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 King	amod
41	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 King	compound
42	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 father	nsubj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 father	punct
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 father	nmod:poss
45	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 surface	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 crown	punct
47	with	with	ADP	_	49 crown	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 crown	nmod:poss
49	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 father	appos
50	on	on	ADP	_	52 head	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 head	nmod:poss
52	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 crown	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	sisters = sister		the same place	after that; night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
2	see	past	mermaid	mermaid's old grandmother			in the distance	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	have	past	mermaid not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not is	participle					to the surface and mermaid's father; of the sea for many years	tree rules
5	father		the old Sea King					tree rules
6	crown		King		King's head			nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place

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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