Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 68
She belongs to the holy temple, and my good fortune has sent you to me instead of her; and we will never part."
Who acts: youngest, we · What happens: belong, send, not part · To what, where: good fortune, you
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 (youngest, we), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 belongs | nsubj |
| 2 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 temple | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 temple | det |
| 5 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 temple | amod |
| 6 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 belongs | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sent | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sent | cc |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fortune | amod |
| 11 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sent | aux |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 belongs | parataxis |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 sent | iobj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 sent | obl |
| 17 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 19 her | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 instead | fixed |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sent | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 part | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 part | cc |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 part | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 part | aux |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 part | advmod |
| 25 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 belongs | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 part | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | youngest = young | to the holy temple | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | present · perfect · passive | my good fortune | you | to me; instead youngest = young | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not part | future | we | tree rules |
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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