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title: The little mermaid now perceived that the crew were in danger; even… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The little mermaid now perceived that the crew were in danger; even she herself was obliged to be careful to avoid the beams and planks of the wreck which lay scattered on the water. Who acts: little mermaid, crew. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 8

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The little mermaid now perceived that the crew were in danger; even she herself was obliged to be careful to avoid the beams and planks of the wreck which lay scattered on the water.

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**Who acts:** little mermaid, crew · **What happens:** perceive, be, oblige, avoid, scatter, beam · **To what, where:** danger, mermaid, beams, wreck, water

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. 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, crew), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:76:8
# text = The little mermaid now perceived that the crew were in danger; even she herself was obliged to be careful to avoid the beams and planks of the wreck which lay scattered on the water.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	conj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	planks	plank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	wreck	wreck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | past | the little mermaid |  |  |  | now |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | the crew |  |  | danger |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | mermaid |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **avoid** | to-infinitive |  | the beams of the wreck and planks |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent beam=Location |
| 6 | **scatter** | past · passive |  | the wreck |  | the water |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on water=Destination |
| 7 | **beam** |  |  | the wreck |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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