Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 72
"Pride must suffer pain," replied the old lady.
Who acts: Pride, old lady · What happens: suffer, reply · To what, where: pain · 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 (Pride, old lady), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 suffer | punct |
| 2 | Pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suffer | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 suffer | aux |
| 4 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suffer | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 suffer | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 suffer | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lady | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lady | amod |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer in a quote | must | Pride | pain | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pain=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the old lady | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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