Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 62

"No," said the old woman, "unless a man were to love you so much that you were more to him than his father or mother; and if all his thoughts and all his love were fixed upon you, and the priest placed his right hand in yours, and he promised to be true to you here and hereafter, then his soul would glide into your body and you would obtain a share in the future happiness of mankind.

Who acts: old woman, you, priest, soul, man · What happens: say, love, be, fix, place, promise · To what, where: you, man, thoughts, right hand, body, share · 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 woman, you, priest, soul), 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 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 woman	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 love	punct
11	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	13 man	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 love	obl
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 love	aux
15	to	to	PART	_	16 love	mark
16	love	love	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 love	obj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADV	_	16 love	advmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 more	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 more	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 more	cop
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 love	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 more	obl
26	than	than	ADP	_	28 father	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 father	nmod:poss
28	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 more	obl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 mother	cc
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 father	conj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 fixed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 fixed	cc
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 fixed	mark
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 thoughts	det:predet
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 thoughts	nmod:poss
36	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 fixed	nsubj:pass
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 love	cc
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 love	det:predet
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 love	nmod:poss
40	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 thoughts	conj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 fixed	aux:pass
42	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	conj
43	upon	upon	ADP	_	44 you	case
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 fixed	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 placed	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 placed	cc
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 priest	det
48	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 placed	nsubj
49	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 hand	nmod:poss
51	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 hand	amod
52	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 placed	obj
53	in	in	ADP	_	54 yours	case
54	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 placed	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 promised	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 promised	cc
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 promised	nsubj
58	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
59	to	to	PART	_	61 true	mark
60	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	61 true	cop
61	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 promised	xcomp
62	to	to	ADP	_	63 you	case
63	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	61 true	obl
64	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	58 promised	advmod
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 hereafter	cc
66	hereafter	hereafter	ADV	_	64 here	conj
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 glide	punct
68	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	72 glide	advmod
69	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	70 soul	nmod:poss
70	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 glide	nsubj
71	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	72 glide	aux
72	glide	glide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 promised	parataxis
73	into	into	ADP	_	75 body	case
74	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	75 body	nmod:poss
75	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 glide	obl
76	and	and	CCONJ	_	79 obtain	cc
77	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	79 obtain	nsubj
78	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	79 obtain	aux
79	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	72 glide	conj
80	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	81 share	det
81	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 obtain	obj
82	in	in	ADP	_	85 happiness	case
83	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	85 happiness	det
84	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	85 happiness	amod
85	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 obtain	obl
86	of	of	ADP	_	87 mankind	case
87	mankind	mankind	NOUN	Number=Sing	85 happiness	nmod
88	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old woman						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	love in a quote	past		you				unless a man	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	is in a quote	past	you		man			than man's father or mother; more property	tree rules
4	fix a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · passive		man's thoughts and man's love				upon you	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
5	place in a quote	past	the priest	priest's right hand				in yours	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in your=Destination
6	promise speech: promise in a quote	past	priest			here			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	priest not said here		you			true property	tree rules
8	glide in a quote	would	priest's soul			your body	then		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into body=Destination
9	obtain in a quote	would	you	a share		the future happiness of mankind			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme
10	think in a quote		man						nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
11	love in a quote		man						nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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