Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 14
"Yes, I will," said the little princess in a trembling voice, as she thought of the prince and the immortal soul.
Who acts: little princess, princess · What happens: say, think · 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 (little princess, princess), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 will | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 will | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | aux |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 will | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 will | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 princess | amod |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 14 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 voice | compound |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 princess | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 thought | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 thought | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thought | nsubj |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 prince | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 prince | det |
| 22 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thought | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 soul | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 soul | det |
| 25 | immortal | immortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 soul | amod |
| 26 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 prince | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | future | the little princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | princess | of the prince and the immortal soul | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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