Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 29
Kill the prince and come back; hasten: do you not see the first red streaks in the sky?
Who acts: you · What happens: kill, come back, hasten, not see · To what, where: prince, first red streaks, sky
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 (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 | Kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kill | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 come | cc |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Kill | conj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 hasten | punct |
| 8 | hasten | hasten | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Kill | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 see | advmod |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Kill | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 streaks | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 streaks | amod |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 streaks | amod |
| 17 | streaks | streak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 see | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 sky | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sky | det |
| 20 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 streaks | nmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | imperative | you not said here | the prince | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come back | infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hasten | infinitive | you not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | not see | present · do-support | you | the first red streaks | the sky | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer streak=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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