Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 32
The little mermaid drew back the crimson curtain of the tent, and beheld the fair bride with her head resting on the prince's breast.
Who acts: little mermaid · What happens: draw back, behold, rest · To what, where: crimson curtain, fair bride, breast
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), 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 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 drew | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 curtain | det |
| 7 | crimson | crimson | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 curtain | amod |
| 8 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tent | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tent | det |
| 11 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 curtain | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beheld | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beheld | cc |
| 14 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bride | det |
| 16 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bride | amod |
| 17 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beheld | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 head | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beheld | obl |
| 21 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 beheld | advcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 breast | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 prince | det |
| 24 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 breast | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 prince | case |
| 26 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 resting | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw back | past | the little mermaid | the crimson curtain of the tent | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | the little mermaid not said here | the fair bride | with bride's head | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | rest | gerund | the little mermaid not said here | the prince's breast | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on breast=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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