Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 85

And then he told her of storm and of calm, of strange fishes in the deep beneath them, and of what the divers had seen there; and she smiled at his descriptions, for she knew better than any one what wonders were at the bottom of the sea.

Who acts: company, mermaid · What happens: tell, see, smile, know, wonder, be · To what, where: mermaid, deep, divers, descriptions, bottom · 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 (company, mermaid), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 told	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 storm	case
7	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fishes	cc
9	of	of	ADP	_	14 fishes	case
10	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fishes	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fishes	punct
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 fishes	case
13	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fishes	amod
14	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 storm	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 deep	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 deep	det
17	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	obl
18	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 deep	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 what	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 what	cc
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 what	case
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 told	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 divers	det
25	divers	diver	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 seen	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 seen	aux
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 what	acl:relcl
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 seen	advmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 smiled	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 smiled	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 smiled	nsubj
32	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 descriptions	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 descriptions	nmod:poss
35	descriptions	description	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 smiled	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 knew	punct
37	for	for	SCONJ	_	39 knew	mark
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 knew	nsubj
39	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 smiled	conj
40	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 knew	advmod
41	than	than	ADP	_	43 one	case
42	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	43 one	det
43	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 better	obl
44	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	45 wonders	nsubj
45	wonders	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 one	acl:relcl
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 bottom	cop
47	at	at	ADP	_	49 bottom	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 bottom	det
49	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 wonders	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 sea	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 sea	det
52	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 bottom	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	company		mermaid	the deep	then	of storm and calm strange fishes	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	see	past · perfect · passive		the divers		there			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	smile	past	mermaid			company's descriptions			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	know	past	mermaid					well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	wonder speech: ask	present							vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past				the bottom		of the sea	tree rules
7	describe		company						nom description «communication transitive»: poss=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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