Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 72

He says the maiden belongs to the holy temple, therefore she will never return to the world.

Who acts: fortune, maiden · What happens: say, belong, not return · 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, maiden), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maiden	det
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 belongs	nsubj
5	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 temple	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 temple	det
8	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 temple	amod
9	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 belongs	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 return	punct
11	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	15 return	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 return	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 return	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 return	advmod
15	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 world	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 return	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	fortune		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	belong	present	the maiden	to the holy temple	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	not return	future	maiden	to the world result; therefore property	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to world=Result

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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