Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 87

She thought she could distinguish her father's castle, and upon it her aged grandmother, with the silver crown on her head, looking through the rushing tide at the keel of the vessel.

Who acts: mermaid · What happens: think, distinguish, look, rush · To what, where: castle · 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 (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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 distinguish	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 distinguish	aux
5	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 castle	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 father	case
9	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 distinguish	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grandmother	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 grandmother	cc
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 grandmother	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 grandmother	nsubj
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 grandmother	nmod:poss
15	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grandmother	amod
16	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 distinguish	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 crown	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 crown	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 crown	det
20	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 crown	amod
21	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 distinguish	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 head	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 crown	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 looking	punct
26	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 distinguish	advcl
27	through	through	ADP	_	30 tide	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tide	det
29	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 tide	amod
30	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 looking	obl
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 keel	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 keel	det
33	keel	keel	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 looking	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 vessel	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 vessel	det
36	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 keel	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	mermaid			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	distinguish	could	mermaid	mermaid's father's castle	upon mermaid's aged grandmother; with the silver crown on mermaid's head	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute castle=Theme
3	look	gerund	mermaid not said here		at the keel of the vessel; through the rushing tide	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through tide=Theme
4	rush	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: 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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