Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 10

On the same evening the bride and bridegroom went on board ship; cannons were roaring, flags waving, and in the centre of the ship a costly tent of purple and gold had been erected.

Who acts: bride, cannons, flags · What happens: go, roar, wave, erect · To what, where: ship, costly tent, centre

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 (bride, cannons, flags), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:5642): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	4 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 evening	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 evening	amod
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bride	det
6	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bridegroom	cc
8	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bride	conj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 ship	case
11	board	board	ADP	_	10 on	fixed
12	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 roaring	punct
14	cannons	cannon	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 roaring	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 roaring	aux
16	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 went	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 waving	punct
18	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 waving	nsubj
19	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 roaring	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 erected	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 erected	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 centre	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 centre	det
24	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 erected	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 ship	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ship	det
27	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 centre	nmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 tent	det
29	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tent	amod
30	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 erected	nsubj:pass
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 purple	case
32	purple	purple	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tent	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 gold	cc
34	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 purple	conj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 erected	aux
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 erected	aux:pass
37	erected	erect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 roaring	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	the bride and bridegroom		ship	evening	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ship=Location
2	roar	past · progressive	cannons				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wave	gerund	flags				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	erect	past · perfect · passive		a costly tent of purple and gold	the centre of the ship		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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