Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 52

"If human beings are not drowned," asked the little mermaid, "can they live forever? do they never die as we do here in the sea?"

Who acts: little mermaid, beings, we · What happens: not drown, ask, live, not die, do · To what, where: human beings, sea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. 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, beings, we), 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	_	10 asked	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 drowned	mark
3	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beings	amod
4	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 drowned	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 drowned	aux:pass
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 drowned	advmod
7	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 asked	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 drowned	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 live	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mermaid	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mermaid	amod
13	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 live	aux
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 live	nsubj
18	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	forever	forever	ADV	_	18 live	advmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 die	punct
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 die	aux
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 die	nsubj
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 die	advmod
24	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 live	parataxis
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 do	mark
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 do	nsubj
27	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 die	advcl
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 do	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 sea	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sea	det
31	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 do	obl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 live	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 live	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not drown a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · passive		human beings			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past	the little mermaid				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	live in a quote	can	beings = being			forever property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not die in a quote	present · do-support	beings = being				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	do in a quote	present	we		the sea; here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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