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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 53

Unseen we can enter the houses of men, where there are children, and for every day on which we find a good child, who is the joy of his parents and deserves their love, our time of probation is shortened.

Who acts: Unseen, we, good child, parents · What happens: enter, be, find, deserve, shorten, love · To what, where: houses, children, good child, joy, love, time

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 (Unseen, we, good child, parents), 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

nsubjnsubjauxdetobjcaseoblpunctadvmodexplcopnmodpunctcccasedetoblcaseoblnsubjparataxisdetamodobjpunctnsubjcopdetapposcasenmod:possnmodccconjnmod:possobjpunctnmod:possconjcaseoblaux:passacl:relclpunctrootUnseenADJwePRONcanAUXenterVERBtheDEThousesNOUNofADPmenNOUN,PUNCTwhereADVtherePRONareAUXchildrenNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJforADPeveryDETdayNOUNonADPwhichPRONwePRONfindVERBaDETgoodADJchildNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONisAUXtheDETjoyNOUNofADPhisPRONparentsNOUNandCCONJdeservesVERBtheirPRONloveNOUN,PUNCTourPRONtimeNOUNofADPprobationNOUNisAUXshortenedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1UnseenunseenADJDegree=Pos4 enternsubj
2wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs4 enternsubj
3cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin4 enteraux
4enterenterVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 housesdet
6houseshouseNOUNNumber=Plur4 enterobj
7ofofADP_8 mencase
8menmanNOUNNumber=Plur13 childrenobl
9,,PUNCT_12 arepunct
10wherewhereADVPronType=Rel12 areadvmod
11theretherePRONPronType=Dem12 areexpl
12arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin13 childrencop
13childrenchildNOUNNumber=Plur6 housesnmod
14,,PUNCT_22 findpunct
15andandCCONJ_22 findcc
16forforADP_18 daycase
17everyeveryDETPronType=Tot18 daydet
18daydayNOUNNumber=Sing22 findobl
19ononADP_20 whichcase
20whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel22 findobl
21wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs22 findnsubj
22findfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 enterparataxis
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 childdet
24goodgoodADJDegree=Pos25 childamod
25childchildNOUNNumber=Sing22 findobj
26,,PUNCT_30 joypunct
27whowhoPRONPronType=Rel30 joynsubj
28isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin30 joycop
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 joydet
30joyjoyNOUNNumber=Sing25 childappos
31ofofADP_33 parentscase
32hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 parentsnmod:poss
33parentsparentNOUNNumber=Plur30 joynmod
34andandCCONJ_35 deservescc
35deservesdeserveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 findconj
36theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs37 lovenmod:poss
37loveloveNOUNNumber=Sing35 deservesobj
38,,PUNCT_40 timepunct
39ourourPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs40 timenmod:poss
40timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing37 loveconj
41ofofADP_42 probationcase
42probationprobationNOUNNumber=Sing44 shortenedobl
43isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin44 shortenedaux:pass
44shortenedshortenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass40 timeacl:relcl
45..PUNCT_4 enterpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1entercanUnseenthe housesvn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination
2is apresentchildrenof mentree rules
3findpresentwea good childdayvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic
4is apresenta good childthe joyof air's parentstree rules
5deservepresentwe not said hereparents's love and our timetree rules
6shortenpresent · passiveour time not said hereof probationvn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»
7loveparents = parentnom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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