Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 61

"So I shall die," said the little mermaid, "and as the foam of the sea I shall be driven about never again to hear the music of the waves, or to see the pretty flowers nor the red sun. Is there anything I can do to win an immortal soul?"

Who acts: little mermaid, anything · What happens: die, say, drive, hear, see, be · To what, where: little mermaid, music, pretty flowers, immortal soul · 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, anything), 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 die	punct
2	So	so	ADV	_	5 die	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 die	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 die	aux
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 die	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 die	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mermaid	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mermaid	amod
11	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 Is	cc
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 foam	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 foam	det
17	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 Is	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 sea	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sea	det
20	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 foam	nmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 driven	nsubj
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 driven	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 driven	aux:pass
24	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 foam	acl:relcl
25	about	about	ADV	_	27 again	advmod
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 again	advmod
27	again	again	ADV	_	24 driven	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 hear	mark
29	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 driven	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 music	det
31	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hear	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 waves	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 waves	det
34	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 music	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 see	punct
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 see	cc
37	to	to	PART	_	38 see	mark
38	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 hear	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 flowers	det
40	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 flowers	amod
41	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 see	obj
42	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	45 sun.	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sun.	det
44	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 sun.	amod
45	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 flowers	conj
46	Is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
47	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	46 Is	expl
48	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	46 Is	nsubj
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 do	nsubj
50	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 do	aux
51	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 anything	acl:relcl
52	to	to	PART	_	53 win	mark
53	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 do	advcl
54	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 soul	det
55	immortal	immortal	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 soul	compound
56	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 win	obj
57	?	?	PUNCT	_	46 Is	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 Is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die in a quote	shall	the little mermaid = mermaid					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	say speech: ask	past	the little mermaid					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	drive in a quote	shall · passive		the little mermaid = mermaid		again		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	hear in a quote	to-infinitive		the music of the waves				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus
5	see in a quote	to-infinitive		the pretty flowers nor the red sun.				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus
6	be in a quote	present	anything		there		as the foam of the sea	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	do in a quote	can	the little mermaid = mermaid					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	win in a quote	to-infinitive	the little mermaid = mermaid not said here	a immortal soul				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Eventuality

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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