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title: The little mermaid leaned her white arms on the edge of the vessel,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The little mermaid leaned her white arms on the edge of the vessel, and looked towards the east for the first blush of morning, for that first ray of dawn that would bring her death. Who acts: little mermaid, first ray, morning, present. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 22

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The little mermaid leaned her white arms on the edge of the vessel, and looked towards the east for the first blush of morning, for that first ray of dawn that would bring her death.

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**Who acts:** little mermaid, first ray, morning, present · **What happens:** learn, look, bring, blush, ray, die · **To what, where:** white arms, edge, death, dawn

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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 (little mermaid, first ray, morning, present), 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:pg27200:78:22
# text = The little mermaid leaned her white arms on the edge of the vessel, and looked towards the east for the first blush of morning, for that first ray of dawn that would bring her death.
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	4	nsubj	_	_
4	leaned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
23	blush	blush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
29	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	amod	_	_
30	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl:relcl	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | the little mermaid | present's white arms |  | the edge of the vessel |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Topic |
| 2 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | towards the east; for the first blush of morning | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards east=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | would | that first ray of dawn | present's death |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent death=Theme |
| 4 | **blush** |  | morning |  |  |  |  |  | nom blush «state intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **ray** |  |  | dawn |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **die** |  | present |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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