Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 86

In the moonlight, when all on board were asleep, excepting the man at the helm, who was steering, she sat on the deck, gazing down through the clear water.

Who acts: all, helm, mermaid · What happens: be, except, steer, sit, gaze down · To what, where: man, helm, moonlight

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 (all, helm, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 moonlight	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moonlight	det
3	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asleep	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 asleep	mark
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 asleep	nsubj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 board	case
8	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 all	nmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asleep	cop
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moonlight	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 excepting	punct
12	excepting	except	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 asleep	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 excepting	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 helm	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 helm	det
17	helm	helm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 excepting	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 steering	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 steering	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 steering	aux
21	steering	steer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 helm	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 moonlight	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sat	nsubj
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 deck	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 deck	det
27	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gazing	punct
29	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sat	advcl
30	down	down	ADV	_	29 gazing	advmod
31	through	through	ADP	_	34 water	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 water	det
33	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 water	amod
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gazing	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	all			asleep property	tree rules
2	except	gerund	all not said here	the man	the helm		tree rules
3	steer	past · progressive	the helm				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sit	past	mermaid		the moonlight	on the deck	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in moonlight=Location
5	gaze down	gerund	mermaid not said here			through the clear water; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through water=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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