Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 88

Then her sisters came up on the waves, and gazed at her mournfully, wringing their white hands.

Who acts: sisters · What happens: come up, gaze, wring · To what, where: waves, white hands

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 (sisters), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sisters	nmod:poss
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 waves	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 waves	det
8	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gazed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gazed	cc
11	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 mournfully	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mournfully	nmod:poss
14	mournfully	mournfully	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 gazed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wringing	punct
16	wringing	wring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 gazed	advcl
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hands	nmod:poss
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hands	amod
19	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wringing	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come up	past	mermaid's sisters		the waves	then	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wave=Location
2	gaze	past	mermaid's sisters not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at mournfully=Theme
3	wring	gerund	mermaid's sisters not said here	sisters's white hands			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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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