Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 73
They will meet no more: while I am by his side, and see him every day.
Who acts: beings, I · What happens: meet, be, see · To what, where: more, fortune
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 (beings, I), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 meet | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 meet | aux |
| 3 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 meet | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 side | punct |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 side | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 side | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 side | cop |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 side | nmod:poss |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meet | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 see | cc |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 meet | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | future | beings = being | more | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | by fortune's side | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | beings = being not said here | fortune | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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