Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 24
"We have given our hair to the witch," said they, "to obtain help for you, that you may not die to-night.
Who acts: We, sisters, you · What happens: give, say, obtain, not die · To what, where: hair, witch, help · 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 (We, sisters, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 given | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hair | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 witch | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 witch | det |
| 9 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 obtain | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 obtain | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 obtain | mark |
| 17 | obtain | obtain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | parataxis |
| 18 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 obtain | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 obtain | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 die | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 die | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 die | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 die | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 die | advmod |
| 26 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 obtain | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 night | case |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 to | punct |
| 29 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 die | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | present · perfect | We | our hair | the witch | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hair=Theme to witch=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | sisters = sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | obtain in a quote | to-infinitive | help | for you | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent help=Theme for you=Asset | ||||
| 4 | not die in a quote | may | you | night | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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