Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 60
"You must not think of that," said the old woman; "we feel ourselves to be much happier and much better off than human beings."
Who acts: You, old woman, we · What happens: not think, say, feel, be, be off · To what, where: ourselves · 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 (You, old woman, 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 | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 think | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 feel | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 feel | punct |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 feel | nsubj |
| 17 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | ccomp |
| 18 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 feel | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 happier | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 happier | cop |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 22 happier | advmod |
| 22 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 feel | advcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 better | cc |
| 24 | much | much | ADV | _ | 25 better | advmod |
| 25 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 happier | conj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 better | compound:prt |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 beings | case |
| 28 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 beings | amod |
| 29 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 better | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other in a quote | must | You | of that | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | feel in a quote | present | we | ourselves | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be off in a quote | we not said here | than human beings | 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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