Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 2
Oh, I am too happy," said he to the little mermaid; "my fondest hopes are all fulfilled.
Who acts: I, prince, my · What happens: be, say, fulfil, hope · To what, where: little mermaid, fondest hopes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, prince, my), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 happy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 happy | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | cop |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 happy | advmod |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 happy | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 happy | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | parataxis |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 mermaid | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mermaid | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mermaid | amod |
| 14 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 fulfilled | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 fulfilled | punct |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hopes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fondest | fond | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 hopes | amod |
| 19 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 fulfilled | advmod |
| 22 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | prince | the little mermaid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mermaid=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | fulfil | present · passive | my fondest hopes | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hope | my | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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