Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 17
The first morning after he marries another your heart will break, and you will become foam on the crest of the waves."
Who acts: prince, first morning, you · What happens: marry, break, become · To what, where: heart, foam, crest
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 (prince, first morning, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 break | nsubj |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 marries | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 marries | nsubj |
| 6 | marries | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 morning | acl:relcl |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 heart | det |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marries | obj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 break | aux |
| 11 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 become | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 become | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 become | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 become | aux |
| 16 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 break | conj |
| 17 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 become | xcomp |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 crest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 crest | det |
| 20 | crest | crest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 become | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 waves | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 waves | det |
| 23 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 crest | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 break | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | present | prince | your heart | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 2 | break | future | the first morning | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | become | future | you | foam | the crest of the waves | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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