--- title: She laid her hands together across her bosom, and then she darted fo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: She laid her hands together across her bosom, and then she darted forward as a fish shoots through the water, between the supple arms and fingers of the ugly polypi, which were stretched out on each side of her. Who acts: courage, fish. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/76/87/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Little Mermaid, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/76/) / 87 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 87 She laid her hands together across her bosom, and then she darted forward as a fish shoots through the water, between the supple arms and fingers of the ugly polypi, which were stretched out on each side of her. **Who acts:** courage, fish · **What happens:** lay, dart, shoot, stretch out, bosom · **To what, where:** hands, bosom, water, ugly polypi, side 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 (courage, fish), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:76:87 # text = She laid her hands together across her bosom, and then she darted forward as a fish shoots through the water, between the supple arms and fingers of the ugly polypi, which were stretched out on each side of her. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 together together ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 6 across across ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 bosom bosom NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 darted dart VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 forward forward ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 shoots shoot VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 19 through through ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 between between ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 supple supple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 polypi polypi NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl:relcl _ _ 37 out out ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 40 det _ _ 40 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | past | courage | courage's hands | | courage's bosom | | together *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Result | | 2 | **dart** | past | courage | | | | then | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **shoot** | present | a fish | | | the water | | between the supple arms of the ugly polypi and fingers | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent through water=Destination | | 4 | **stretch out** | past · passive | | the ugly polypi | | each side of courage | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **bosom** | | courage | | | | | | nom bosom «state 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. - ← previous: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/76/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/76/88/) - ↑ back to [The Little Mermaid, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/76/)