Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 5
His wedding morning would bring death to her, and she would change into the foam of the sea.
Who acts: wedding morning, heart · What happens: bring, change · To what, where: death, heart, foam
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 (wedding morning, heart), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 morning | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | compound |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bring | aux |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 change | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 change | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 change | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 change | aux |
| 13 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bring | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 foam | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 foam | det |
| 16 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 change | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 foam | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | would | mermaid's wedding morning | death | heart | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent death=Theme to she=Destination | |||
| 2 | change | would | heart | into the foam of the sea result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into foam=Result |
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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