Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 80
"I must travel," he had said to her; "I must see this beautiful princess; my parents desire it; but they will not oblige me to bring her home as my bride.
Who acts: prince, fortune, parents · What happens: travel, say, see, desire, not oblige, bring · To what, where: mermaid, beautiful princess, head, fortune, home · 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, fortune, parents), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 travel | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 travel | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 travel | aux |
| 4 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 travel | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | aux |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 travel | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 travel | conj |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 princess | det |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 princess | amod |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 desire | punct |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 parents | nmod:poss |
| 22 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 desire | nsubj |
| 23 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 travel | parataxis |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 desire | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 oblige | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 oblige | cc |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 oblige | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 oblige | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 oblige | advmod |
| 30 | oblige | oblige | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 desire | conj |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 oblige | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 bring | mark |
| 33 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 oblige | advcl |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 home | nmod:poss |
| 35 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bring | obj |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 bride | case |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 bride | nmod:poss |
| 38 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bring | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 travel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel in a quote | must | prince | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | prince | mermaid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | must | fortune | this beautiful princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | desire in a quote | present | my parents | head | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not oblige in a quote | future | parents = parent | fortune | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 6 | bring in a quote | to-infinitive | parents = parent not said here | mermaid's home | as my bride | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
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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