Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 18
This was the last evening that she would breathe the same air with him, or gaze on the starry sky and the deep sea; an eternal night, without a thought or a dream, awaited her: she had no soul and now she could never win one.
Who acts: This, present · What happens: be, breathe, gaze, await, have, not win · To what, where: last evening, same air, present, soul, one
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, present), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 evening | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 evening | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 evening | det |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 evening | amod |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 awaited | parataxis |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 breathe | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 breathe | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 breathe | aux |
| 9 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 evening | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 air | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 air | amod |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 breathe | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 breathe | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gaze | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 gaze | cc |
| 17 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 breathe | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 sky | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sky | det |
| 20 | starry | starry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sky | amod |
| 21 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gaze | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sea | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sea | det |
| 24 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sea | amod |
| 25 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sky | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 night | punct |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 night | det |
| 28 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 night | amod |
| 29 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 evening | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 thought | punct |
| 31 | without | without | ADP | _ | 33 thought | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 thought | det |
| 33 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 evening | conj |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 dream | cc |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 dream | det |
| 36 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 thought | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 evening | punct |
| 38 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 awaited | obj |
| 40 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 42 had | punct |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 had | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 awaited | parataxis |
| 43 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 44 soul | det |
| 44 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 had | obj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 win | cc |
| 46 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 50 win | advmod |
| 47 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 win | nsubj |
| 48 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 win | aux |
| 49 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 50 win | advmod |
| 50 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 had | conj |
| 51 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 50 win | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 awaited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the last evening and a eternal night and a thought or a dream | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | breathe | would | present | the same air | with prince | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | |||
| 3 | gaze | infinitive | present not said here | on the starry sky and the deep sea | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on sky=Theme | ||||
| 4 | await | past | present | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | have | past | present | no soul | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient | ||||
| 6 | not win | could | present | one | now | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality |
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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