Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 22

The little mermaid leaned her white arms on the edge of the vessel, and looked towards the east for the first blush of morning, for that first ray of dawn that would bring her death.

Who acts: little mermaid, first ray, morning, present · What happens: learn, look, bring, blush, ray, die · To what, where: white arms, edge, death, dawn

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 (little mermaid, first ray, morning, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mermaid	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mermaid	amod
3	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaned	nsubj
4	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 arms	nmod:poss
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 arms	amod
7	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leaned	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 edge	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 edge	det
10	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaned	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 vessel	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 vessel	det
13	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 edge	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 looked	cc
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leaned	parataxis
17	towards	towards	ADP	_	19 east	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 east	det
19	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looked	obl
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 blush	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 blush	det
22	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 blush	amod
23	blush	blush	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looked	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 morning	case
25	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blush	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ray	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 ray	case
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 ray	det
29	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 ray	amod
30	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looked	parataxis
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 dawn	case
32	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ray	nmod
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 bring	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 bring	aux
35	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 ray	acl:relcl
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 death	nmod:poss
37	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bring	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 leaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn	past	the little mermaid	present's white arms	the edge of the vessel		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Topic
2	look	past				towards the east; for the first blush of morning	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards east=Theme
3	bring	would	that first ray of dawn	present's death			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent death=Theme
4	blush		morning				nom blush «state intransitive»: of=agent
5	ray			dawn			nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
6	die		present				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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