Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 37

She saw the bright sun, and all around her floated hundreds of transparent beautiful beings; she could see through them the white sails of the ship, and the red clouds in the sky; their speech was melodious, but too ethereal to be heard by mortal ears, as they were also unseen by mortal eyes.

Who acts: ray, speech, mortal ears, sails, sky · What happens: see, float, be, hear, speak · To what, where: bright sun, hundreds, white sails · 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 (ray, speech, mortal ears, sails), 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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sun	amod
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 floated	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 floated	cc
8	all	all	ADV	_	11 floated	advmod
9	around	around	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 floated	obl
11	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
12	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 floated	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 beings	case
14	transparent	transparent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 beings	amod
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 beings	amod
16	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hundreds	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 floated	conj
21	through	through	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sails	det
24	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sails	amod
25	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 see	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 ship	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ship	det
28	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sails	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 clouds	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 clouds	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 clouds	det
32	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 clouds	amod
33	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 sky	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sky	det
36	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 clouds	nmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 melodious	punct
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 speech	nmod:poss
39	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 melodious	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 melodious	cop
41	melodious	melodious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 clouds	parataxis
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 ethereal	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 ethereal	cc
44	too	too	ADV	_	45 ethereal	advmod
45	ethereal	ethereal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 melodious	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	48 heard	mark
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 heard	aux:pass
48	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 ethereal	advcl
49	by	by	ADP	_	51 ears	case
50	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 ears	amod
51	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 heard	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 unseen	punct
53	as	as	SCONJ	_	57 unseen	mark
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 unseen	nsubj
55	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 unseen	cop
56	also	also	ADV	_	57 unseen	advmod
57	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 melodious	conj
58	by	by	ADP	_	60 eyes	case
59	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 eyes	amod
60	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 unseen	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	ray	the bright sun	the red clouds in the sky obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus
2	float	past		hundreds of transparent beautiful beings	around ray; all property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme around she=Trajectory
3	see	could	ray	the white sails of the ship	through beings = being	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sail=Stimulus
4	is	past	sky's speech		melodious property	tree rules
5	be		sky's speech not said here			tree rules
6	hear	to-infinitive · passive	mortal ears			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past	sails = sail		by mortal eyes; unseen property	tree rules
8	speak		sky			nom speech «communication 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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