Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 67

Oh, were I but fifteen years old," said she: "I know that I shall love the world up there, and all the people who live in it."

Who acts: I, body, people · What happens: be, say, know, love, live · To what, where: world · 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 (I, body, people), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 old	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 old	cop
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 old	nsubj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 old	cc
6	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 old	obl:unmarked
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 old	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 old	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 old	conj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
16	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 old	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 love	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 love	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 love	aux
20	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 know	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 world	det
22	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 love	obj
23	up	up	ADV	_	24 there	advmod
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 love	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 people	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 people	cc
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 people	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 people	det
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 love	conj
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 live	nsubj
31	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 people	acl:relcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 live	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 old	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I			year	old property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	body					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	know	present	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	love	shall	I	the world	there			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus
5	live	present	all people		world			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location

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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