Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 78

I will venture all for him, and to win an immortal soul, while my sisters are dancing in my father's palace, I will go to the sea witch, of whom I have always been so much afraid, but she can give me counsel and help."

Who acts: I, sisters, mermaid · What happens: venture, win, dance, go, be, give · To what, where: all, immortal soul, palace, counsel, me

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 (I, sisters, mermaid), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 venture	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 venture	aux
3	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 venture	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 all	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 win	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 win	cc
9	to	to	PART	_	10 win	mark
10	win	win	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 venture	parataxis
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 soul	det
12	immortal	immortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 soul	amod
13	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 win	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dancing	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 dancing	mark
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sisters	nmod:poss
17	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 dancing	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 dancing	aux
19	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 win	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	24 palace	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 father	nmod:poss
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 palace	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 father	case
24	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dancing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 venture	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 witch	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 witch	det
31	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 witch	compound
32	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 afraid	punct
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 whom	case
35	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 afraid	obl
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 afraid	nsubj
37	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 afraid	aux
38	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	42 afraid	advmod
39	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 afraid	cop
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 much	advmod
41	much	much	ADV	_	42 afraid	advmod
42	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 go	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 give	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 give	cc
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 give	nsubj
46	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 give	aux
47	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 afraid	conj
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 give	iobj
49	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 give	obj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 help	cc
51	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 counsel	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 venture	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 venture	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	venture	future	I	all			for prince	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent all=Topic
2	win	to-infinitive		a immortal soul				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Eventuality
3	dance	present · progressive	my sisters			my father's palace		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location
4	go	future	I				to the sea witch	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to witch=Initial_Location
5	is	present · perfect	I				afraid, always property	tree rules
6	give	can	mermaid	counsel and help	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient counsel=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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