Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 74
I will take care of him, and love him, and give up my life for his sake."
Who acts: I · What happens: take, love, give up · To what, where: care, fortune, life
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), 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 | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 take | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 love | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 love | cc |
| 9 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | parataxis |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 love | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 give | cc |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 love | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 give | compound:prt |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 life | nmod:poss |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 sake | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sake | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | I | care | of fortune | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | love | present | fortune | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | give up | infinitive | my life | for fortune's sake | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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