Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 46
After we have striven for three hundred years to all the good in our power, we receive an immortal soul and take part in the happiness of mankind.
Who acts: we · What happens: strive, receive, take · To what, where: we, immortal soul, part, happiness
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), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 striven | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 striven | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 striven | aux |
| 4 | striven | strive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 receive | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hundred | compound |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 striven | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 good | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 good | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 good | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 years | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 power | case |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 power | nmod:poss |
| 15 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 good | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 striven | punct |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 receive | nsubj |
| 18 | receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 soul | det |
| 20 | immortal | immortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 soul | amod |
| 21 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 receive | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 take | cc |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 receive | conj |
| 24 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 happiness | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 happiness | det |
| 27 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 mankind | case |
| 29 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 happiness | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 receive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strive | present · perfect · passive | we | year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | present | we | a immortal soul | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | we not said here | part | the happiness of mankind | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in happiness=Location |
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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