Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 53

The prince said she should remain with him always, and she received permission to sleep at his door, on a velvet cushion.

Who acts: prince, mermaid · What happens: say, remain, receive, sleep · To what, where: permission, velvet cushion, door · 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 (prince, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 remain	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 remain	aux
6	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 remain	obl
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 remain	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 received	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 received	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 received	nsubj
13	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
14	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 received	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 sleep	mark
16	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 permission	acl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 door	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 door	nmod:poss
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sleep	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cushion	punct
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 cushion	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 cushion	det
23	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cushion	compound
24	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 received	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	remain	should	mermaid			with prince; always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	receive	past	mermaid	permission	a velvet cushion		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent permission=Theme on cushion=Location
4	sleep	to-infinitive	mermaid not said here	permission not said here	prince's door		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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