Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 8
You are but just in time," said the witch; "for after sunrise to-morrow I should not be able to help you till the end of another year.
Who acts: You, sunrise · What happens: be, say, not be, help · To what, where: witch, you · 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 (You, sunrise), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 time | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 witch | det |
| 11 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 able | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 sunrise | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 sunrise | case |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 sunrise | case |
| 16 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 able | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 morrow | case |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 to | punct |
| 19 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sunrise | nmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 able | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 able | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 able | advmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 able | cop |
| 24 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 help | mark |
| 26 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 able | xcomp |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 help | obj |
| 28 | till | till | ADP | _ | 30 end | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 end | det |
| 30 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 help | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 year | case |
| 32 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 year | det |
| 33 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 end | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | You | the witch | time | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not is | should | sunrise to morrow | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | sunrise to morrow not said here | you | till the end of another year | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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