Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 67
I saw her but twice, and she is the only one in the world whom I could love; but you are like her, and you have almost driven her image out of my mind.
Who acts: I, youngest, you, my · What happens: see, be, love, drive, image, mind · To what, where: youngest, only one, world, image, mind
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 (I, youngest, you, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:5606): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | but | but | ADV | _ | 5 twice | advmod |
| 5 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 saw | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 one | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 one | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 one | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 11 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 love | obj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 love | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 love | aux |
| 19 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 one | acl:relcl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 her | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 her | cc |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 her | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 her | cop |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 driven | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 driven | cc |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 driven | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 driven | aux |
| 30 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 31 driven | advmod |
| 31 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 saw | conj |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 image | nmod:poss |
| 33 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 driven | obj |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 mind | case |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 mind | case |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 mind | nmod:poss |
| 37 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 driven | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | youngest = young | twice property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | present | youngest = young | the only one | the world | tree rules | |||
| 3 | love | could | I | the only one | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | present | you | like youngest = young | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | drive | present · perfect | you | youngest's image | my mind | almost property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent image=Theme out mind=Trajectory | ||
| 6 | image | youngest = young | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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