Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 22
"But if you take away my voice," said the little mermaid, "what is left for me?"
Who acts: you, little mermaid · What happens: take away, say, leave · To what, where: voice · 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 (you, little 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 | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 6 | away | away | ADP | _ | 5 take | compound:prt |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 voice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mermaid | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mermaid | amod |
| 14 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 left | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 left | punct |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 left | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 left | aux:pass |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 left | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 left | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | my voice | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the little mermaid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | present · passive | for the little mermaid = mermaid | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for i=Recipient |
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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