Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 75
Very soon it was said that the prince must marry, and that the beautiful daughter of a neighboring king would be his wife, for a fine ship was being fitted out.
Who acts: prince, beautiful daughter · What happens: say, marry, neighbor, be, fit out · To what, where: life, wife · 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 (prince, beautiful daughter), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | aux:pass |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 marry | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 marry | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 marry | aux |
| 10 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fitted | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 fitted | cc |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 wife | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 daughter | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 daughter | amod |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wife | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 king | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 19 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 king | amod |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 daughter | nmod |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 wife | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wife | cop |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wife | nmod:poss |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fitted | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wife | punct |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 ship | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 ship | det |
| 28 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ship | amod |
| 29 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fitted | obl |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 fitted | aux:pass |
| 31 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 fitted | aux:pass |
| 32 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 marry | conj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 fitted | compound:prt |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · passive | life | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry | must | the prince | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is a | would | the beautiful daughter of a neighboring king | prince's wife | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fit out | past · passive | the prince not said here | for a fine ship | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING» |
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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