Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 48
The little mermaid lifted her glorified eyes towards the sun, and felt them, for the first time, filling with tears.
Who acts: little mermaid, heart · What happens: lift, glorify, feel, fill · To what, where: eyes
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, heart), 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 lifted | nsubj |
| 4 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 glorified | nsubj |
| 6 | glorified | glorify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lifted | ccomp |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 glorified | obj |
| 8 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 10 sun | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glorified | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 felt | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 felt | cc |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lifted | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 felt | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 time | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 felt | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 filling | punct |
| 21 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 felt | advcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 tears | case |
| 23 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 filling | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | the little mermaid | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | glorify | past | heart | eyes | towards the sun | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 3 | feel | past | the little mermaid not said here | eyes = eye | time | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | fill | gerund | the little mermaid not said here | with tears | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tear=Instrument |
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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