Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 63

"Do you not love me the best of them all?" the eyes of the little mermaid seemed to say, when he took her in his arms, and kissed her fair forehead.

Who acts: you, eyes, prince · What happens: not love, seem, say, take, kiss · To what, where: mermaid, arms, fair forehead · 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, eyes, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 love	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 love	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 love	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 love	advmod
5	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 seemed	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 love	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 best	det
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 love	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 best	nmod
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 them	nmod:unmarked
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 love	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 love	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 eyes	det
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 seemed	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 mermaid	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mermaid	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mermaid	amod
19	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eyes	nmod
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	to	to	PART	_	22 say	mark
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 seemed	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 took	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 took	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 took	nsubj
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 say	ccomp
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 took	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 arms	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 arms	nmod:poss
30	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 took	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 kissed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 kissed	cc
33	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seemed	conj
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 forehead	nmod:poss
35	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 forehead	amod
36	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 kissed	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not love in a quote	present · do-support	you	mermaid		tree rules
2	seem	past	the eyes of the little mermaid			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the eyes of the little mermaid not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take	past	prince	mermaid	prince's arms	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in arm=Location
5	kiss	past	the eyes of the little mermaid not said here	mermaid's fair forehead		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Co-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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