Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 71
I saw the pretty maiden that he loves better than he loves me;" and the mermaid sighed deeply, but she could not shed tears. "
Who acts: I, fortune, mermaid · What happens: see, love, sigh, not shed · To what, where: better, me, tears · 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 (I, fortune, 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 | 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 maiden | det |
| 4 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 maiden | amod |
| 5 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 loves | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 loves | nsubj |
| 8 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 maiden | advcl |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 loves | obj |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 loves | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 loves | nsubj |
| 12 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 better | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 loves | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sighed | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mermaid | det |
| 18 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sighed | nsubj |
| 19 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 20 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 19 sighed | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 shed | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 shed | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 shed | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 shed | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 shed | advmod |
| 26 | shed | shed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 saw | conj |
| 27 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 shed | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 shed | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 shed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | maiden property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | love | present | fortune | better | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | love | present | fortune | me | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | sigh in a quote | past | the mermaid | deeply property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not shed in a quote | could | mermaid | tears | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source |
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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