Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 66
Let us be happy," said the old lady, "and dart and spring about during the three hundred years that we have to live, which is really quite long enough; after that we can rest ourselves all the better.
Who acts: we, hundred years · What happens: let, be, say, have, live, rest · To what, where: us, old lady, hundred years, 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 (we, hundred years), 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 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happy | compound |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happy | cop |
| 4 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 happy | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 happy | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lady | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lady | amod |
| 10 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lady | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 lady | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dart | cc |
| 14 | dart | dart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lady | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spring | cc |
| 16 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dart | conj |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 years | advmod |
| 18 | during | during | ADP | _ | 22 years | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 years | det |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 hundred | compound |
| 21 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 years | nummod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 spring | conj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 have | obj |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 years | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 live | mark |
| 27 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 have | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 long | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 long | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 long | cop |
| 31 | really | really | ADV | _ | 33 long | advmod |
| 32 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 33 long | advmod |
| 33 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 live | advmod |
| 34 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 33 long | advmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 rest | punct |
| 36 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 40 rest | mark |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 after | fixed |
| 38 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 rest | nsubj |
| 39 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 rest | aux |
| 40 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 41 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 40 rest | obj |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 better | det:predet |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 better | det |
| 44 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 rest | xcomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | happy property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the old lady and dart and spring and the hundred years | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | present | we | the hundred years | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | live | to-infinitive | the hundred years not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | present | enough, long property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | rest | can | we | ourselves | good property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ourselves=Theme |
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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