Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 35

She cast one more lingering, half-fainting glance at the prince, and then threw herself from the ship into the sea, and thought her body was dissolving into foam.

Who acts: bride, body · What happens: cast, throw, think, dissolve · To what, where: one more lingering, bride, ship, foam · Speech: someone speaks here

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, body), 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 cast	nsubj
2	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 lingering	nummod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 lingering	amod
5	lingering	lingering	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cast	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 glance	punct
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	10 glance	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 half	punct
9	fainting	fainting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 glance	compound
10	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lingering	appos
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 prince	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 glance	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 threw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 threw	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 threw	advmod
17	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cast	conj
18	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 threw	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 ship	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ship	det
21	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obl
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 sea	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sea	det
24	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thought	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 thought	cc
27	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cast	conj
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 body	nmod:poss
29	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dissolving	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 dissolving	aux
31	dissolving	dissolve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 thought	ccomp
32	into	into	ADP	_	33 foam	case
33	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dissolving	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast	past	bride	one more lingering				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lingering=Product
2	throw	past	bride not said here	bride	the ship	then	into the sea	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme from ship=Initial_Location into sea=Destination
3	think speech: other	past	bride not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	dissolve	past · progressive	bride's body				into foam result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into foam=Result

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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