Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 31
And then they sighed deeply and mournfully, and sank down beneath the waves.
Who acts: streaks · What happens: sigh, sink down
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 (streaks), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sighed | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sighed | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sighed | nsubj |
| 4 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 4 sighed | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mournfully | cc |
| 7 | mournfully | mournfully | ADV | _ | 5 deeply | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sank | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sank | cc |
| 10 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sighed | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 sank | compound:prt |
| 12 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 14 waves | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 waves | det |
| 14 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sank | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | streaks = streak | then | deeply property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | sink down | past | streaks = streak not said here | beneath the waves | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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