Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 9

The little mermaid, dressed in silk and gold, held up the bride's train; but her ears heard nothing of the festive music, and her eyes saw not the holy ceremony; she thought of the night of death which was coming to her, and of all she had lost in the world.

Who acts: ears, eyes, bride, night · What happens: dress, hold up, hear, not see, think, come · To what, where: little mermaid, silk, nothing, holy ceremony, bride, all

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 (ears, eyes, bride, night), 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	11 held	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dressed	punct
5	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 mermaid	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 silk	case
7	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dressed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gold	cc
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 silk	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 held	punct
11	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 held	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bride	det
14	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 train	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 bride	case
16	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 heard	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 heard	cc
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 ears	nmod:poss
20	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 heard	nsubj
21	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 held	parataxis
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 heard	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 music	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 music	det
25	festive	festive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 music	amod
26	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 nothing	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saw	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 saw	cc
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 eyes	nmod:poss
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 saw	nsubj
31	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 heard	conj
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 saw	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ceremony	det
34	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 ceremony	amod
35	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saw	obj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 thought	punct
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 thought	nsubj
38	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 heard	conj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 night	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 night	det
41	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 thought	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 death	case
43	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 night	nmod
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 coming	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 coming	aux
46	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 night	conj
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 her	case
48	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 coming	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 lost	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 lost	cc
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 all	case
52	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	55 lost	nsubj:pass
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 lost	nsubj
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 lost	aux
55	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 thought	conj
56	in	in	ADP	_	58 world	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 world	det
58	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 lost	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	dress	participle		the little mermaid not said here		silk and gold		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hold up	participle · passive		the little mermaid				tree rules
3	hear	past	bride's ears	nothing				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
4	not see	past	bride's eyes	the holy ceremony				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ceremony=Stimulus
5	think speech: other	past	bride				night	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come	past · progressive	the night of death		bride			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
7	lose	past · perfect · passive		all		the world		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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