Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 47

You, poor little mermaid, have tried with your whole heart to do as we are doing; you have suffered and endured and raised yourself to the spirit-world by your good deeds; and now, by striving for three hundred years in the same way, you may obtain an immortal soul."

Who acts: You, we · What happens: try, do, suffer, endure, raise, strive · To what, where: yourself, spirit world, immortal soul

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, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 tried	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mermaid	punct
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mermaid	amod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mermaid	amod
5	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 You	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mermaid	punct
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tried	aux
8	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 heart	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 heart	nmod:poss
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 heart	amod
12	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tried	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 do	mark
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tried	xcomp
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 doing	mark
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 doing	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 doing	aux
18	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 do	advcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 suffered	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 suffered	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 suffered	aux
22	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 tried	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 endured	cc
24	endured	endure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 suffered	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 raised	cc
26	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 endured	conj
27	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 raised	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	32 world	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
30	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 world	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 spirit	punct
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 raised	obl
33	by	by	ADP	_	36 deeds	case
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 deeds	nmod:poss
35	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 deeds	amod
36	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 raised	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 obtain	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 obtain	cc
39	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	54 obtain	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 now	punct
41	by	by	SCONJ	_	42 striving	mark
42	striving	strive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	54 obtain	advcl
43	for	for	ADP	_	46 years	case
44	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 hundred	compound
45	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 years	nummod
46	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 striving	obl
47	in	in	ADP	_	50 way	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 way	det
49	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 way	amod
50	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 years	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 striving	punct
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	54 obtain	nsubj
53	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 obtain	aux
54	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tried	parataxis
55	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 soul	det
56	immortal	immortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 soul	amod
57	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 obtain	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	54 obtain	punct
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	54 obtain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · perfect	You				with your whole heart	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	present · progressive	we					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	suffer	present · perfect	you					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	endure	past	you not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	raise	past	you not said here	yourself	the spirit world		by your good deeds	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme to world=Destination by deed=Initial_Location
7	strive	gerund	you not said here			year		tree rules
8	obtain	may	you	a immortal soul		now		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme

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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