Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 10

Your tail will then disappear, and shrink up into what mankind calls legs, and you will feel great pain, as if a sword were passing through you.

Who acts: tail, mankind, you, sword · What happens: disappear, shrink up, call, feel, pass · To what, where: legs, great pain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tail, mankind, you, sword), 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 tail	nmod:poss
2	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 disappear	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 disappear	aux
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 disappear	advmod
5	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shrink	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shrink	cc
8	shrink	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 disappear	parataxis
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 shrink	compound:prt
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 what	case
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 shrink	obl
12	mankind	mankind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 calls	nsubj
13	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 what	acl:relcl
14	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 calls	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 feel	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 feel	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 feel	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 feel	aux
19	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 disappear	conj
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pain	amod
21	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 feel	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 passing	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 passing	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 passing	mark
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 sword	det
26	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 passing	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 passing	aux
28	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 feel	advcl
29	through	through	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 passing	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 disappear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	future	Your tail		then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shrink up	present					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into what=Result
3	call	present	mankind	legs			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent leg=Recipient
4	feel	future	you	great pain			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme
5	pass	past · progressive	a sword			through you	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through you=Location

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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