Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 69
"Ah, he knows not that it was I who saved his life," thought the little mermaid. "
Who acts: fortune, temple, little mermaid · What happens: not know, be, save, think · To what, where: little mermaid, life · 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 (fortune, temple, little mermaid), 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 knows | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 knows | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 knows | nsubj |
| 5 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 thought | parataxis |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 knows | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 I | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 I | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 I | cop |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 saved | nsubj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 saved | nsubj |
| 12 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knows | ccomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 life | nmod:poss |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saved | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saved | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 knows | punct |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mermaid | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mermaid | amod |
| 20 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thought | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 mermaid | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 mermaid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present | fortune | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | temple | the little mermaid = mermaid | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | save in a quote | past | the little mermaid = mermaid | fortune's life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | the little mermaid | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
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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