Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 41
A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being.
Who acts: mermaid, music · What happens: have, obtain, win · To what, where: immortal soul, one, love
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 (mermaid, music), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mermaid | det |
| 2 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 soul | advmod |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 soul | det |
| 6 | immortal | immortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 soul | amod |
| 7 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 obtain | punct |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 obtain | cc |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 obtain | aux |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 obtain | nsubj |
| 12 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 has | parataxis |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 obtain | obj |
| 14 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 16 wins | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wins | nsubj |
| 16 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 obtain | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 love | det |
| 18 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wins | obj |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 being | mark |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 human | det |
| 21 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 being | nsubj |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 love | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a mermaid | a immortal soul | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient | ||||
| 2 | obtain | can | music | one | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | win a condition, not said to happen | present | music | the love | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=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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