Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 61

They stretched out their hands towards her, but they did not venture so near the land as her sisters did.

Who acts: sisters · What happens: stretch out, not venture, do · To what, where: hands, land

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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stretched	nsubj
2	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 stretched	compound:prt
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stretched	obj
6	towards	towards	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stretched	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 venture	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 venture	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 venture	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 venture	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 venture	advmod
13	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stretched	conj
14	so	so	ADV	_	13 venture	advmod
15	near	near	ADP	_	17 land	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 land	det
17	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 venture	obl
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 did	mark
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sisters	nmod:poss
20	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 did	nsubj
21	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 venture	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stretch out	past	sisters = sister	sisters's hands		towards mermaid	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient towards she=Recipient
2	not venture	past · do-support	sisters = sister		the land		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	do	past	mermaid's sisters				vn act-114-1 «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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