Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 11

But all who see you will say that you are the prettiest little human being they ever saw.

Who acts: all, you, legs · What happens: see, say, be · 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 (all, you, legs), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 say	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 say	nsubj:outer
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 all	acl:relcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 prettiest	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 prettiest	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 prettiest	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 prettiest	det
12	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 say	ccomp
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 human	amod
14	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 prettiest	parataxis
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 saw	cop
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 saw	advmod
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 prettiest	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	see	present				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	future	all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	you		pretty property	tree rules
4	is	gerund	legs = leg	ever	see 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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