Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 96

Then the little mermaid, who was very anxious to see whether she was really beautiful, was obliged to acknowledge that she had never seen a more perfect vision of beauty.

Who acts: little mermaid, mermaid · What happens: be, see, oblige, acknowledge, not see · To what, where: little mermaid, more perfect vision · 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 (little mermaid, mermaid), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 obliged	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mermaid	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mermaid	amod
4	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 obliged	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 anxious	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 anxious	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 anxious	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 anxious	advmod
9	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mermaid	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 anxious	advcl
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	16 beautiful	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 beautiful	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 beautiful	cop
15	really	really	ADV	_	16 beautiful	advmod
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 see	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mermaid	punct
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 obliged	aux:pass
19	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	to	to	PART	_	21 acknowledge	mark
21	acknowledge	acknowledge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 obliged	xcomp
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 seen	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seen	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 seen	aux
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 seen	advmod
26	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 acknowledge	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 vision	det
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 vision	amod
29	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 vision	amod
30	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seen	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 beauty	case
32	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 vision	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the little mermaid			anxious property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	the little mermaid not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	mermaid			beautiful property	tree rules
4	oblige	past · passive		the little mermaid	then		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
5	acknowledge	to-infinitive					vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	not see	past · perfect	mermaid	a more perfect vision of beauty			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vision=Stimulus

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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