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title: "So I shall die," said the little mermaid, "and as the foam of the s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "So I shall die," said the little mermaid, "and as the foam of the sea I shall be driven about never again to hear the music of the waves, or to see the pretty flowers nor the red sun. Is there anything I can do to win an immortal soul?" Who acts: little mermaid, anything. A sentence of «Fairy Tales
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 61

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"So I shall die," said the little mermaid, "and as the foam of the sea I shall be driven about never again to hear the music of the waves, or to see the pretty flowers nor the red sun. Is there anything I can do to win an immortal soul?"

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**Who acts:** little mermaid, anything · **What happens:** die, say, drive, hear, see, be · **To what, where:** little mermaid, music, pretty flowers, immortal soul · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little mermaid, anything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:76:61
# text = "So I shall die," said the little mermaid, "and as the foam of the sea I shall be driven about never again to hear the music of the waves, or to see the pretty flowers nor the red sun. Is there anything I can do to win an immortal soul?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
42	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	45	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
46	Is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
47	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	46	expl	_	_
48	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	46	nsubj	_	_
49	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	acl:relcl	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	advcl	_	_
54	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	immortal	immortal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** *in a quote* | shall | the little mermaid *= mermaid* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the little mermaid |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **drive** *in a quote* | shall · passive |  | the little mermaid *= mermaid* |  |  | again |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **hear** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the music of the waves |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the pretty flowers nor the red sun. |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus |
| 6 | **be** *in a quote* | present | anything |  |  | there |  | as the foam of the sea | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **do** *in a quote* | can | the little mermaid *= mermaid* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **win** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the little mermaid *= mermaid* *not said here* | a immortal soul |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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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