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title: You want to get rid of your fish's tail, and to have two supports in… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: You want to get rid of your fish's tail, and to have two supports instead of it, like human beings on earth, so that the young prince may fall in love with you, and that you may have an immortal soul." Who acts: You, young prince. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Ander
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 6

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You want to get rid of your fish's tail, and to have two supports instead of it, like human beings on earth, so that the young prince may fall in love with you, and that you may have an immortal soul."

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**Who acts:** You, young prince · **What happens:** want, get, have, fall · **To what, where:** two supports, love, immortal soul

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, young prince), 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:pg27200:77:6
# text = You want to get rid of your fish's tail, and to have two supports instead of it, like human beings on earth, so that the young prince may fall in love with you, and that you may have an immortal soul."
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	supports	support	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	33	mark	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
44	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	immortal	immortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | two supports |  |  |  | instead bosom | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent support=Patient |
| 4 | **fall** | may | the young prince |  |  | love |  | with you | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
| 5 | **have** | may | you | a immortal soul |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient |

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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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