Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 36

The sun rose above the waves, and his warm rays fell on the cold foam of the little mermaid, who did not feel as if she were dying.

Who acts: sun, warm rays, little mermaid, ray · What happens: rise, fall, not feel, die, ray · To what, where: waves, cold foam

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 (sun, warm rays, little mermaid, ray), 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	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rose	nsubj
3	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	above	above	ADP	_	6 waves	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 waves	det
6	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rose	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fell	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 rays	nmod:poss
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rays	amod
11	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rose	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 foam	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 foam	det
15	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 foam	amod
16	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 mermaid	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mermaid	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mermaid	amod
20	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 foam	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 feel	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 feel	nsubj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 feel	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 feel	advmod
25	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 mermaid	conj
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 dying	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 dying	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 dying	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dying	aux
30	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 feel	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	rise	past	the sun	the waves	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above wave=Location
2	fall	past	sun's warm rays	the cold foam of the little mermaid	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on foam=Location
3	not feel	past · do-support	the little mermaid		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	die	past · progressive	ray		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	ray		sun		nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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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