Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 64

"Yes, you are dear to me," said the prince; "for you have the best heart, and you are the most devoted to me; you are like a young maiden whom I once saw, but whom I shall never meet again.

Who acts: you, prince · What happens: be, say, have, see, not meet · To what, where: prince, best heart, young maiden · 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, 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	_	6 dear	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 dear	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 dear	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dear	cop
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 dear	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dear	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 dear	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	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 heart	det
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 heart	amod
21	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 devoted	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 devoted	cc
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 devoted	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 devoted	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 devoted	det
27	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	28 devoted	advmod
28	devoted	devoted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 have	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 devoted	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 maiden	punct
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 maiden	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 maiden	cop
34	like	like	ADP	_	37 maiden	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 maiden	det
36	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 maiden	amod
37	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	parataxis
38	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 saw	obj
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 saw	nsubj
40	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	41 saw	advmod
41	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 maiden	acl:relcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 meet	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 meet	cc
44	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 meet	obj
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 meet	nsubj
46	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 meet	aux
47	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	48 meet	advmod
48	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 saw	conj
49	again	again	ADV	_	48 meet	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	you		the prince = prince		dear property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the prince					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	present	you	the best heart				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
4	is in a quote	present	you		the prince = prince		devoted property	tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	you				like a young maiden	tree rules
6	see in a quote	past	the prince = prince	a young maiden			once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
7	not meet in a quote	shall	the prince = prince			again		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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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