Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 15

"But think again," said the witch; "for when once your shape has become like a human being, you can no more be a mermaid.

Who acts: witch, you · What happens: think, say, become, know, 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 (witch, you), 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	_	3 think	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 think	cc
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 think	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 witch	det
9	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 become	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 become	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 become	mark
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 become	mark
14	once	once	SCONJ	_	16 shape	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 shape	nmod:poss
16	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 become	obl
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 become	aux
18	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 said	conj
19	like	like	ADP	_	30 mermaid	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 mermaid	det
21	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mermaid	amod
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 mermaid	cop
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 no	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 no	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 no	aux
26	no	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 mermaid	det
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 mermaid	amod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 mermaid	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 mermaid	det
30	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 become	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	infinitive		again		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the witch			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	become in a quote	present · perfect	the witch not said here		once your shape	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	know in a quote	can	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is in a quote	gerund			like a human more mermaid	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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