Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 23

She saw her sisters rising out of the flood: they were as pale as herself; but their long beautiful hair waved no more in the wind, and had been cut off.

Who acts: present, sisters, long beautiful hair · What happens: see, rise, be, wave, cut off · To what, where: sisters, flood, more

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 (present, sisters, long beautiful hair), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sisters	nmod:poss
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obj
5	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 sisters	acl
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 flood	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 flood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flood	det
9	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rising	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 pale	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pale	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pale	cop
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 pale	advmod
14	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	conj
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 herself	case
16	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 pale	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 waved	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 waved	cc
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hair	nmod:poss
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hair	amod
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hair	amod
22	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 waved	nsubj
23	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
24	no	no	ADV	_	25 more	advmod
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 waved	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 wind	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wind	det
28	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 waved	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cut	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cut	cc
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 cut	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 cut	aux:pass
33	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 saw	conj
34	off	off	ADP	_	33 cut	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	present	present's sisters			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus
2	rise	gerund	present's sisters not said here		the flood		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out flood=Location
3	is	past	sisters = sister			as present; pale property	tree rules
4	wave	past	sisters's long beautiful hair	more		in the wind	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Patient in wind=Theme
5	cut off	past · perfect · passive	present not said here				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»

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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