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title: Then the little mermaid drank the magic draught, and it seemed as if… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the little mermaid drank the magic draught, and it seemed as if a two-edged sword went through her delicate body: she fell into a swoon, and lay like one dead. Who acts: little mermaid, it, edged sword, mermaid. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Littl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 40

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Then the little mermaid drank the magic draught, and it seemed as if a two-edged sword went through her delicate body: she fell into a swoon, and lay like one dead.

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**Who acts:** little mermaid, it, edged sword, mermaid · **What happens:** drink, seem, edge, go, fall, lay · **To what, where:** magic draught, delicate body, swoon

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. 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, it, edged sword, mermaid), 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:pg27200:77:40
# text = Then the little mermaid drank the magic draught, and it seemed as if a two-edged sword went through her delicate body: she fell into a swoon, and lay like one dead.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	edged	edge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	swoon	swoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | the little mermaid | the magic draught |  |  | then |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Patient |
| 2 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **edge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | a edged sword |  |  | sword's delicate body |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through body=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **fall** | past | mermaid |  |  |  |  | into a swoon *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into swoon=Result |
| 6 | **lay** | infinitive | mermaid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like one dead | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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