--- title: Beautiful female slaves, dressed in silk and gold, stepped forward a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Beautiful female slaves, dressed in silk and gold, stepped forward and sang before the prince and his royal parents: one sang better than all the others, and the prince clapped his hands and smiled at her. Who acts: Beautiful female slaves, one, prince. 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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 (Beautiful female slaves, one, prince), 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:pg27200:77:46 # text = Beautiful female slaves, dressed in silk and gold, stepped forward and sang before the prince and his royal parents: one sang better than all the others, and the prince clapped his hands and smiled at her. 1 Beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 slaves slave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 forward forward ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 15 before before ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nsubj _ _ 24 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 25 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 xcomp _ _ 26 than than ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 29 det:predet _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 clapped clap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 smiled smile VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dress** | participle | | Beautiful female slaves *not said here* | | silk and gold | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **step forward** | past | Beautiful female slaves | | | | | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Beautiful female slaves *not said here* | | | | before the prince and prince's royal parents | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before prince=Location | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | one | | | | | good *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **clap** | past | the prince | prince's hands | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | | 6 | **smile** | past | the prince *not said here* | | | | | at sun | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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. 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