Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 16
Her tender feet felt as if cut with sharp knives, but she cared not for it; a sharper pang had pierced through her heart.
Who acts: tender feet, present · What happens: feel, cut, not care, pierce · To what, where: sharper pang
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 (tender feet, present), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 feet | nmod:poss |
| 2 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feet | compound |
| 3 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 cut | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 cut | mark |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 knives | case |
| 9 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 knives | amod |
| 10 | knives | knife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cut | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cared | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 cared | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cared | nsubj |
| 14 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 cared | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cared | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 pierced | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pang | det |
| 20 | sharper | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 pang | amod |
| 21 | pang | pang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pierced | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 pierced | aux |
| 23 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 felt | conj |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 heart | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 heart | nmod:poss |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pierced | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | present's tender feet | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | cut a condition, not said to happen | participle | present's tender feet not said here | with sharp knives | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with knife=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | not care | past | present | for swallow | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pierce | past · perfect · passive | a sharper pang | through present's heart | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: subject=Instrument through heart=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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