Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 6

You want to get rid of your fish's tail, and to have two supports instead of it, like human beings on earth, so that the young prince may fall in love with you, and that you may have an immortal soul."

Who acts: You, young prince · What happens: want, get, have, fall · To what, where: two supports, love, immortal soul

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, young prince), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
5	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 tail	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fish	nmod:poss
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tail	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 fish	case
10	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rid	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	14 have	mark
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	parataxis
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 supports	nummod
16	supports	support	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	obj
17	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	19 it	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	17 instead	fixed
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 beings	punct
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 beings	case
22	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 beings	amod
23	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 earth	case
25	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 beings	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fall	punct
27	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	33 fall	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 so	fixed
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 prince	det
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 prince	amod
31	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fall	nsubj
32	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 fall	aux
33	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 have	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 love	case
35	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fall	obl
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 you	case
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 fall	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 have	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 have	cc
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 have	mark
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 have	nsubj
42	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 have	aux
43	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	conj
44	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 soul	det
45	immortal	immortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 soul	amod
46	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 have	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	present	You				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here			rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	have	to-infinitive		two supports		instead bosom	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent support=Patient
4	fall	may	the young prince		love	with you	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location
5	have	may	you	a immortal soul			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=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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