Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 64

Your fish's tail, which amongst us is considered so beautiful, is thought on earth to be quite ugly; they do not know any better, and they think it necessary to have two stout props, which they call legs, in order to be handsome."

Who acts: souls · What happens: consider, think, be, not know, have, call · To what, where: tail, earth, order, two stout props · 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 (souls), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 fish	nmod:poss
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tail	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 fish	case
4	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thought	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 considered	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 considered	nsubj:pass
7	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	8 us	case
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 which	obl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 considered	aux:pass
10	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tail	acl:relcl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 beautiful	advmod
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 considered	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tail	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 thought	aux:pass
15	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 earth	case
17	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thought	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	21 ugly	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 ugly	cop
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 ugly	advmod
21	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thought	advcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 know	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 know	nsubj
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 know	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 know	advmod
26	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thought	parataxis
27	any	any	ADV	_	28 better	advmod
28	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 know	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 think	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 think	cc
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 think	nsubj
32	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 know	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 think	obj
34	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 think	xcomp
35	to	to	PART	_	36 have	mark
36	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 necessary	advcl
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 props	nummod
38	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 props	amod
39	props	prop	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 have	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 call	punct
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 call	obj
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 call	nsubj
43	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 props	acl:relcl
44	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 call	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 order	punct
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 order	case
47	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 know	obl
48	to	to	PART	_	50 handsome	mark
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 handsome	cop
50	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 order	acl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 know	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consider	present · passive		Your fish's tail		beautiful property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
2	think speech: other	present · passive		Your fish's tail	earth		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive				ugly property	tree rules
4	not know	present · do-support	souls = soul		order		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	think speech: other	present	souls = soul	tail		necessary property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
6	have	to-infinitive	souls = soul not said here	two stout props			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prop=Patient
7	call	present	souls = soul	two stout props			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme leg=Result
8	is	to-infinitive	souls = soul not said here			handsome property	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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