Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 21
My own blood must be mixed with it, that it may be as sharp as a two-edged sword."
Who acts: heart · What happens: mix, be, edge · To what, where: own blood
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 (heart), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 blood | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blood | amod |
| 3 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mixed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 mixed | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 mixed | aux:pass |
| 6 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mixed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sharp | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 sharp | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sharp | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 sharp | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sharp | cop |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 sharp | advmod |
| 15 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mixed | advcl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 sword | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sword | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 edged | nummod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 two | punct |
| 20 | edged | edge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 sword | amod |
| 21 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sharp | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mixed | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix | must · passive | My own blood | with heart | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with it=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | may | heart | as a edged sword; sharp property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | edge | participle | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
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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