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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 enter | nsubj |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 enter | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 enter | aux |
| 4 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 houses | det |
| 6 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 enter | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 men | case |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 children | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 are | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 are | advmod |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 are | expl |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 children | cop |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 houses | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 find | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 find | cc |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 find | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 find | obl |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 find | nsubj |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 enter | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 child | det |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 child | amod |
| 25 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 find | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 joy | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 joy | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 joy | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 joy | det |
| 30 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 child | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 parents | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 parents | nmod:poss |
| 33 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 joy | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 deserves | cc |
| 35 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 find | conj |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 love | nmod:poss |
| 37 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 deserves | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 time | punct |
| 39 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 time | nmod:poss |
| 40 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 love | conj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 probation | case |
| 42 | probation | probation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 shortened | obl |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 shortened | aux:pass |
| 44 | shortened | shorten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 time | acl:relcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 enter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | can | Unseen | the houses | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | children | of men | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | present | we | a good child | day | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic | |||
| 4 | is a | present | a good child | the joy | of air's parents | tree rules | |||
| 5 | deserve | present | we not said here | parents's love and our time | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | shorten | present · passive | our time not said here | of probation | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | ||||
| 7 | love | parents = parent | nom 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/78/53/