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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

compoundobjcopparataxispunctpunctdetamodobjpunctpunctccconjccconjadvmodcasedetcompoundnummodconjobjnsubjacl:relclmarkxcomppunctnsubjcopadvmodadvmodadvmodadvmodpunctmarkfixednsubjauxconjobjdet:predetdetxcomppunctrootLetVERBusPRONbeAUXhappyADJ,PUNCT"PUNCTsaidVERBtheDEToldADJladyNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTandCCONJdartNOUNandCCONJspringNOUNaboutADVduringADPtheDETthreeNUMhundredNUMyearsNOUNthatPRONwePRONhaveVERBtoPARTliveVERB,PUNCTwhichPRONisAUXreallyADVquiteADVlongADVenoughADV;PUNCTafterSCONJthatSCONJwePRONcanAUXrestVERBourselvesPRONallDETtheDETbetterADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1LetletVERBVerbForm=Inf4 happycompound
2uswePRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs1 Letobj
3bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf4 happycop
4happyhappyADJDegree=Pos7 saidparataxis
5,,PUNCT_4 happypunct
6""PUNCT_4 happypunct
7saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 ladydet
9oldoldADJDegree=Pos10 ladyamod
10ladyladyNOUNNumber=Sing7 saidobj
11,,PUNCT_10 ladypunct
12""PUNCT_10 ladypunct
13andandCCONJ_14 dartcc
14dartdartNOUNNumber=Sing10 ladyconj
15andandCCONJ_16 springcc
16springspringNOUNNumber=Sing14 dartconj
17aboutaboutADV_22 yearsadvmod
18duringduringADP_22 yearscase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 yearsdet
20threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card21 hundredcompound
21hundredhundredNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card22 yearsnummod
22yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plur16 springconj
23thatthatPRONPronType=Rel25 haveobj
24wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs25 havensubj
25havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 yearsacl:relcl
26totoPART_27 livemark
27liveliveVERBVerbForm=Inf25 havexcomp
28,,PUNCT_33 longpunct
29whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel33 longnsubj
30isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin33 longcop
31reallyreallyADV_33 longadvmod
32quitequiteADV_33 longadvmod
33longlongADVDegree=Pos27 liveadvmod
34enoughenoughADV_33 longadvmod
35;;PUNCT_40 restpunct
36afterafterSCONJ_40 restmark
37thatthatSCONJ_36 afterfixed
38wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs40 restnsubj
39cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin40 restaux
40restrestVERBVerbForm=Inf7 saidconj
41ourselvesourselvesPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes40 restobj
42allallDETPronType=Tot44 betterdet:predet
43thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art44 betterdet
44bettergoodADJDegree=Cmp40 restxcomp
45..PUNCT_7 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1letinfinitiveusvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2isinfinitivehappy propertytree rules
3say speech: assert in a quotepastthe old lady and dart and spring and the hundred yearstree rules
4havepresentwethe hundred yearstree rules
5liveto-infinitivethe hundred years not said herevn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6ispresentenough, long propertytree rules
7restcanweourselvesgood propertyvn 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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