Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 49

But she said she should never forget the beautiful forest, the green hills, and the pretty little children who could swim in the water, although they had not fish's tails.

Who acts: turn, pretty little children, children · What happens: say, not forget, swim, have · To what, where: beautiful forest, water, tails · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turn, pretty little children, children), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 forget	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 forget	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 forget	advmod
7	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 forest	amod
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forget	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hills	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hills	det
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hills	amod
14	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 forest	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 swim	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 swim	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 children	det
18	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 children	amod
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 children	amod
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 swim	nsubj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 swim	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 swim	aux
23	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 water	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 water	det
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 swim	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
28	although	although	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 swim	parataxis
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 fish	advmod
32	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 tails	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 fish	case
34	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 had	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	turn			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not forget	should	turn	the beautiful forest and the green hills		tree rules
3	swim	could	the pretty little children		the water	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory
4	have	past	children = child	fish's tails		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

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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