Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 65

I was in a ship that was wrecked, and the waves cast me ashore near a holy temple, where several young maidens performed the service.

Who acts: I, waves, several young maidens · What happens: be, wreck, cast, perform · To what, where: ship, me, holy temple, service

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 (I, waves, several young maidens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:5604): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 ship	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ship	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 ship	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ship	det
5	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 wrecked	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wrecked	aux:pass
8	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ship	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cast	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cast	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 waves	det
12	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cast	nsubj
13	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ship	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 cast	obj
15	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	13 cast	advmod
16	near	near	ADP	_	19 temple	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 temple	det
18	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 temple	amod
19	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cast	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 performed	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 performed	advmod
22	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 maidens	amod
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 maidens	amod
24	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 performed	nsubj
25	performed	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 temple	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 service	det
27	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 performed	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ship	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	I		a ship		tree rules
2	wreck	past · passive		a ship			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	cast	past	the waves	me	a holy temple	ashore property	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme near temple=Destination
4	perform	past	several young maidens	the service			vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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