Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 70

I carried him over the sea to the wood where the temple stands: I sat beneath the foam, and watched till the human beings came to help him.

Who acts: I, temple, human beings · What happens: carry, stand, sit, watch, come, help · To what, where: fortune, sea, foam

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, temple, human beings), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 wood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 stands	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 temple	det
12	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stands	nsubj
13	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wood	acl:relcl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	parataxis
17	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	19 foam	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 foam	det
19	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 watched	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 watched	cc
22	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sat	conj
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 came	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 beings	det
25	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 beings	amod
26	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 watched	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 help	mark
29	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 came	xcomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 help	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	I	fortune		the sea	to the wood	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to wood=Destination
2	stand	present	the temple					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit	past	I			the foam		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath foam=Location
4	watch	past	I not said here					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	come	past	the human beings					tree rules
6	help	to-infinitive	the human beings not said here		fortune			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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