Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 81

I cannot love her; she is not like the beautiful maiden in the temple, whom you resemble.

Who acts: I, mermaid, you · What happens: not love, not be, resemble · To what, where: mermaid, temple

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, mermaid, you), 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	4 love	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 love	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 love	advmod
4	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 love	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 maiden	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 maiden	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 maiden	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 maiden	advmod
10	like	like	SCONJ	_	13 maiden	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 maiden	det
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 maiden	amod
13	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 love	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 temple	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 temple	det
16	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 maiden	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 resemble	punct
18	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 resemble	obj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 resemble	nsubj
20	resemble	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 temple	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 love	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not love	can	I	mermaid			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	not is	present	mermaid		the temple	maiden property	tree rules
3	resemble	present	you	the temple			tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/77/81/