Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 1

"It was you," said the prince, "who saved my life when I lay dead on the beach," and he folded his blushing bride in his arms. "

Who acts: It, prince, he · What happens: be, say, save, lay, fold, blush · To what, where: you, life, beach, blushing bride, arms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, prince, he), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 you	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 you	cop
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 you	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 you	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saved	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 saved	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 saved	nsubj
13	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lay	advcl
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 life	nmod:poss
15	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saved	obj
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 lay	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 lay	nsubj
18	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
19	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lay	xcomp
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 beach	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 beach	det
22	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 folded	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 folded	nsubj
27	folded	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 bride	nmod:poss
29	blushing	blush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 bride	amod
30	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 folded	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 arms	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 arms	nmod:poss
33	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 folded	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	It	you			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	save in a quote	past		my life			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
4	lay in a quote	present	the prince = prince		the beach	dead property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on beach=Destination
5	fold	past	he	his blushing bride	his arms		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bride=Patient
6	blush	gerund					vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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