Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 33

Then she cut off the mermaid's tongue, so that she became dumb, and would never again speak or sing. "

Who acts: witch · What happens: cut off, become, speak, sing · To what, where: tongue · 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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 cut	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cut	nsubj
3	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	8 tongue	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mermaid	det
6	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tongue	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 mermaid	case
8	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 became	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 became	advmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 became	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 became	nsubj
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	conj
14	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 became	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 speak	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 speak	cc
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 speak	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 again	advmod
19	again	again	ADV	_	20 speak	advmod
20	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	parataxis
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 sing	cc
22	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 speak	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	past	witch	the mermaid's tongue	then		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector tongue=Eventuality
2	become	past	witch			dumb property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	speak speech: other	would			again		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sing speech: express	infinitive					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: 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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