Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 55

We have not immortal souls, we shall never live again; but, like the green sea-weed, when once it has been cut off, we can never flourish more.

Who acts: We, green sea weed · What happens: have, not live, cut off, not flourish · To what, where: immortal souls, weed, more

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 (We, green sea weed), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 immortal	advmod
4	immortal	immortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 souls	amod
5	souls	soul	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 live	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 live	nsubj
8	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 live	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 live	advmod
10	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	parataxis
11	again	again	ADV	_	10 live	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 flourish	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 flourish	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 weed	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	20 weed	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 weed	det
17	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 weed	amod
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 weed	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 sea	punct
20	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 flourish	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cut	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 cut	advmod
23	once	once	SCONJ	_	27 cut	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cut	nsubj:pass
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 cut	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 cut	aux:pass
27	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 weed	conj
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 cut	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 weed	punct
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 flourish	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 flourish	aux
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 flourish	advmod
33	flourish	flourish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	parataxis
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 flourish	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	present	We	immortal souls		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient
2	not live	shall	we		again	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cut off	present · perfect · passive		weed		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
4	not flourish	can	the green sea weed	more		tree rules

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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