Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 53
"Yes," replied the old lady, "they must also die, and their term of life is even shorter than ours.
Who acts: old lady, beings, term · What happens: reply, die, be, term · To what, where: old lady, life · 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 (old lady, beings, term), 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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lady | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lady | amod |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 die | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 die | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 die | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 die | aux |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 die | advmod |
| 14 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lady | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shorter | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 shorter | cc |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 term | nmod:poss |
| 18 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shorter | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 term | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 shorter | cop |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 shorter | advmod |
| 23 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 ours | case |
| 25 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 shorter | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the old lady | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | die in a quote | must | beings = being | the old lady not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | beings's term of life | than ours; short property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | term in a quote | beings = being | life | nom term «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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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