Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 38

The little mermaid perceived that she had a body like theirs, and that she continued to rise higher and higher out of the foam. "

Who acts: little mermaid, ray · What happens: perceive, have, continue, rise · To what, where: body

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, 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	3 mermaid	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mermaid	amod
3	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perceived	nsubj
4	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 perceived	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 body	det
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 theirs	case
11	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 body	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 continued	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 continued	cc
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 continued	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 continued	nsubj
16	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 perceived	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 rise	mark
18	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 continued	xcomp
19	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 rise	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 higher	cc
21	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 higher	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	25 foam	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 foam	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 foam	det
25	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 higher	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 perceived	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 perceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	the little mermaid			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have	past	ray	a body	like sails = sail	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient
3	continue	past	ray			vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	rise	to-infinitive	ray not said here		high property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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