Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 89

She beckoned to them, and smiled, and wanted to tell them how happy and well off she was; but the cabin-boy approached, and when her sisters dived down he thought it was only the foam of the sea which he saw.

Who acts: mermaid, cabin boy, sisters, boy, castle · What happens: beckon, smile, want, tell, be, approach · To what, where: sisters, foam · 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, cabin boy, sisters, boy), 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 beckoned	nsubj
2	beckoned	beckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beckoned	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 smiled	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 smiled	cc
7	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beckoned	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wanted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wanted	cc
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beckoned	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 tell	mark
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wanted	xcomp
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 happy	advmod
15	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tell	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 was	cc
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 was	advmod
18	off	off	ADP	_	20 was	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 was	nsubj
20	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 happy	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 approached	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 approached	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 boy	det
24	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 boy	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 cabin	punct
26	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 approached	nsubj
27	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beckoned	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 thought	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 thought	cc
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 dived	advmod
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 sisters	nmod:poss
32	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 dived	nsubj
33	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 thought	advcl
34	down	down	ADP	_	33 dived	compound:prt
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 thought	nsubj
36	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beckoned	parataxis
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 foam	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 foam	cop
39	only	only	ADV	_	41 foam	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 foam	det
41	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 thought	ccomp
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 sea	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 sea	det
44	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 foam	nmod
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 saw	obj
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 saw	nsubj
47	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 foam	acl:relcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beckoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beckon	past	mermaid		sisters = sister		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
2	smile	past	mermaid not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	want	past					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive			sisters = sister		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	be	past	mermaid			well property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	approach	past	the cabin boy				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	dive down	past	mermaid's sisters				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	think speech: other	past	boy				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is a	past	castle	the foam		of the sea	tree rules
10	see	past	boy	the foam			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus

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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