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title: I will venture all for him, and to win an immortal soul, while my si… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I will venture all for him, and to win an immortal soul, while my sisters are dancing in my father's palace, I will go to the sea witch, of whom I have always been so much afraid, but she can give me counsel and help." Who acts: I, sisters, mermaid. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Ander
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 78

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I will venture all for him, and to win an immortal soul, while my sisters are dancing in my father's palace, I will go to the sea witch, of whom I have always been so much afraid, but she can give me counsel and help."

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**Who acts:** I, sisters, mermaid · **What happens:** venture, win, dance, go, be, give · **To what, where:** all, immortal soul, palace, counsel, me

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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 (I, sisters, mermaid), 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:pg27200:76:78
# text = I will venture all for him, and to win an immortal soul, while my sisters are dancing in my father's palace, I will go to the sea witch, of whom I have always been so much afraid, but she can give me counsel and help."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	win	win	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	immortal	immortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	42	obl	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
37	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
38	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	42	advmod	_	_
39	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	42	cop	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	much	much	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
48	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	iobj	_	_
49	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **venture** | future | I | all |  |  |  | for prince | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent all=Topic |
| 2 | **win** | to-infinitive |  | a immortal soul |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Eventuality |
| 3 | **dance** | present · progressive | my sisters |  |  | my father's palace |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
| 4 | **go** | future | I |  |  |  |  | to the sea witch | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to witch=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | afraid, always *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **give** | can | mermaid | counsel and help | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient counsel=Theme |

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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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