Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 84

You are not afraid of the sea, my dumb child," said he, as they stood on the deck of the noble ship which was to carry them to the country of the neighboring king.

Who acts: You, company, happiness, noble ship · What happens: not be, say, stand, be, neighbor · To what, where: deck · 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 (You, company, happiness, noble ship), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 afraid	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 afraid	advmod
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 afraid	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 child	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 child	nmod:poss
10	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 child	amod
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sea	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	parataxis
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 stood	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stood	nsubj
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 deck	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 deck	det
22	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 ship	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ship	det
25	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ship	amod
26	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 deck	nmod
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 carry	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 carry	cop
29	to	to	PART	_	30 carry	mark
30	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ship	acl:relcl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 carry	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 country	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 country	det
34	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carry	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 king	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 king	det
37	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 king	amod
38	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 country	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	You		of the sea and my dumb child; afraid property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	company			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	stand in a quote	past	happiness	the deck of the noble ship		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on deck=Location
4	is in a quote	past	the noble ship		to the country of the neighboring king; carry property	tree rules
5	neighbor in a quote	gerund				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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