Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 18

The merman and his daughter must be invited first, although it may not be agreeable to them to remain so long on dry land, but they shall have a wet stone to sit on, or perhaps something better; so I think they will not refuse this time.

Who acts: company, merman, I · What happens: invite, not be, remain, have, sit on, think · To what, where: merman, dry land, wet stone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (company, merman, I), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merman	det
2	merman	merman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 invited	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 daughter	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughter	nmod:poss
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 merman	conj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 invited	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 invited	aux:pass
8	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 invited	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 agreeable	punct
11	although	although	SCONJ	_	16 agreeable	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 agreeable	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 agreeable	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 agreeable	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 agreeable	cop
16	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 invited	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 agreeable	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 remain	mark
20	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 agreeable	advcl
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 long	advmod
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 remain	advmod
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 land	case
24	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 land	amod
25	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 remain	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 have	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 have	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 have	aux
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 invited	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 stone	det
32	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 stone	amod
33	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 sit	mark
35	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 stone	acl
36	on	on	ADV	_	35 sit	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 something	punct
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 something	cc
39	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	40 something	advmod
40	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	35 sit	conj
41	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 something	advmod
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 think	punct
43	so	so	ADV	_	45 think	advmod
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 think	nsubj
45	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 invited	conj
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 refuse	nsubj
47	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 refuse	aux
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 refuse	advmod
49	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 think	ccomp
50	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 time	det
51	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 refuse	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 invited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invite	must · passive		the merman and king's daughter				first property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	not is	may	company		merman			agreeable property	tree rules
3	remain	to-infinitive	company not said here			dry land		long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location
4	have	shall	merman	a wet stone					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
5	sit on	to-infinitive	merman not said here	a wet stone not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	think speech: other	present	I						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	not refuse	future	merman				time		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: 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. 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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