Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 18

"I will do it," said the little mermaid, and she became pale as death.

Who acts: little mermaid, mermaid · What happens: do, say, become · To what, where: heart · 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 mermaid, mermaid), 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	_	4 do	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	parataxis
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mermaid	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mermaid	amod
11	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 became	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 became	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 became	nsubj
15	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
16	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 death	case
17	as	as	ADP	_	16 pale	fixed
18	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 became	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	future	the little mermaid = mermaid	heart		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	the little mermaid			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	become	past	mermaid		pale death	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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