Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 82
If I were forced to choose a bride, I would rather choose you, my dumb foundling, with those expressive eyes."
Who acts: I · What happens: force, choose · To what, where: I, bride, you
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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 forced | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forced | aux:pass |
| 4 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 choose | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 choose | mark |
| 6 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 forced | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bride | det |
| 8 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 choose | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 forced | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 choose | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 choose | aux |
| 12 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 13 choose | advmod |
| 13 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 choose | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 foundling | punct |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 foundling | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 foundling | amod |
| 18 | foundling | foundling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 choose | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eyes | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 21 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 eyes | det |
| 22 | expressive | expressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 eyes | amod |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 foundling | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 choose | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | I | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | choose | to-infinitive | I not said here | a bride | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme | ||||
| 3 | choose | would | I | you | my dumb foundling and that expressive eyes obl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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