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title: As the days passed, she loved the prince more fondly, and he loved h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As the days passed, she loved the prince more fondly, and he loved her as he would love a little child, but it never came into his head to make her his wife; yet, unless he married her, she could not receive an immortal soul; and, on the morning after his marriage with another, she would dissolve in
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 62

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As the days passed, she loved the prince more fondly, and he loved her as he would love a little child, but it never came into his head to make her his wife; yet, unless he married her, she could not receive an immortal soul; and, on the morning after his marriage with another, she would dissolve into the foam of the sea.

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**Who acts:** days, mermaid, prince, child · **What happens:** pass, love, not come, make, marry, not receive · **To what, where:** prince, mermaid, little child, head, wife, 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 (days, mermaid, prince, child), 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:pg27200:77:62
# text = As the days passed, she loved the prince more fondly, and he loved her as he would love a little child, but it never came into his head to make her his wife; yet, unless he married her, she could not receive an immortal soul; and, on the morning after his marriage with another, she would dissolve into the foam of the sea.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	fondly	fondly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
38	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
40	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
43	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
46	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
47	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
48	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
49	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	immortal	immortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	66	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
55	on	on	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	obl	_	_
58	after	after	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	_
61	with	with	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	60	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
64	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	nsubj	_	_
65	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	66	aux	_	_
66	dissolve	dissolve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
67	into	into	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
69	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	obl	_	_
70	of	of	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
71	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
72	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | the days |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **love** | past | mermaid | the prince |  |  |  | fondly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus |
| 3 | **love** | past | prince | mermaid |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 4 | **love** | would | prince | a little child |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **come** | past | child |  |  | prince's head |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into head=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | prince's wife | mermaid |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary wife=Product |
| 7 | **marry** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | prince | mermaid |  |  | yet |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 8 | **not** **receive** | could | mermaid | a immortal soul |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
| 9 | **dissolve** | would | mermaid |  |  |  | morning | into the foam of the sea *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into foam=Result |
| 10 | **marry** |  | prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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