Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 59

"Why have not we an immortal soul?" asked the little mermaid mournfully; "I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars."

Who acts: we, little mermaid, hundreds, hope · What happens: have, not soul, ask, give, live, be · To what, where: hundreds, hope, happiness · 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 (we, little mermaid, hundreds, hope), 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	_	3 have	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 have	advmod
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 asked	ccomp
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 soul	advmod
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 soul	nsubj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 soul	det
7	immortal	immortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 soul	amod
8	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mermaid	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mermaid	amod
14	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	obj
15	mournfully	mournfully	ADV	_	11 asked	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 give	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 give	aux
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	ccomp
21	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	20 give	advmod
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 hundreds	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hundreds	det
24	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 give	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 years	case
26	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hundreds	nmod
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 have	obj
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 have	nsubj
29	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 hundreds	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 live	mark
31	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 have	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 day	punct
33	to	to	PART	_	41 day	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 day	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 day	det
36	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 day	amod
37	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 day	cop
38	only	only	ADV	_	41 day	advmod
39	for	for	ADP	_	41 day	case
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 day	nummod
41	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 live	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 have	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 have	cc
44	to	to	PART	_	45 have	mark
45	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 give	conj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 hope	det
47	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 have	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 knowing	case
49	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 hope	acl
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 happiness	det
51	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 knowing	obj
52	of	of	ADP	_	55 world	case
53	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	55 world	det
54	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 world	amod
55	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 happiness	nmod
56	above	above	ADP	_	58 stars	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 stars	det
58	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 world	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not soul in a quote		we				tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past	the little mermaid			mournfully property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give in a quote	would	the little mermaid = mermaid	all hundreds of years		gladly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme
5	have in a quote	present	the little mermaid = mermaid	all hundreds of years			tree rules
6	live in a quote	to-infinitive	all hundreds of years not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is in a quote	to-infinitive			for a human one day		tree rules
8	have in a quote	to-infinitive	the little mermaid = mermaid not said here	the hope			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient
9	know in a quote	gerund	the hope not said here	the happiness of that glorious world above the stars			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer happiness=Stimulus

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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