Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 34
She was in his thoughts, and the knife trembled in the hand of the little mermaid: then she flung it far away from her into the waves; the water turned red where it fell, and the drops that spurted up looked like blood.
Who acts: bride, water, drops · What happens: be, tremble, fling, turn, fall, spurt up · To what, where: thoughts, knife, hand, waves
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 (bride, water, drops), 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 | 5 thoughts | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thoughts | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 thoughts | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 5 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knife | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 knife | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 knife | det |
| 9 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thoughts | conj |
| 10 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 knife | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hand | det |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trembled | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mermaid | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mermaid | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mermaid | amod |
| 17 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hand | nmod |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 flung | punct |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 flung | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 flung | nsubj |
| 21 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thoughts | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 flung | obj |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 away | advmod |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 flung | advmod |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 away | obl |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 waves | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 waves | det |
| 29 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 flung | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 turned | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 water | det |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turned | nsubj |
| 33 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 flung | conj |
| 34 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 turned | xcomp |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 fell | advmod |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 fell | nsubj |
| 37 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 turned | advcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 looked | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 looked | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 drops | det |
| 41 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 looked | nsubj |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 spurted | nsubj |
| 43 | spurted | spurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 drops | acl:relcl |
| 44 | up | up | ADP | _ | 43 spurted | compound:prt |
| 45 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 flung | conj |
| 46 | like | like | ADP | _ | 47 blood | case |
| 47 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 looked | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thoughts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bride | prince's thoughts and the knife | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tremble | participle | the knife not said here | the hand of the little mermaid | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location | ||||
| 3 | fling | past | bride | hand | the waves | then | away property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into wave=Destination | |
| 4 | turn | past | the water | red property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | water | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | spurt up | past | the drops | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 7 | look | past | the drops | like blood | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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