Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 21

Then all became still on board the ship; the helmsman, alone awake, stood at the helm.

Who acts: all, helmsman · What happens: become, stand · To what, where: ship, helm

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 (all, helmsman), 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	3 became	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	still	still	ADV	_	3 became	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 ship	case
6	board	board	ADP	_	8 ship	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ship	det
8	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 helmsman	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 helmsman	det
11	helmsman	helmsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 awake	punct
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	14 awake	advmod
14	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 helmsman	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stood	punct
16	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 helm	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 helm	det
19	helm	helm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	all			the ship	then; still		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	stand	past	the helmsman			the helm			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at helm=Location

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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