--- title: "I must travel," he had said to her; "I must see this beautiful prin… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "I must travel," he had said to her; "I must see this beautiful princess; my parents desire it; but they will not oblige me to bring her home as my bride. Who acts: prince, fortune, parents. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (prince, fortune, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:77:80 # text = "I must travel," he had said to her; "I must see this beautiful princess; my parents desire it; but they will not oblige me to bring her home as my bride. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 17 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 18 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 desire desire VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 oblige oblige VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 as as ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** *in a quote* | must | prince | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | prince | | mermaid | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | must | fortune | this beautiful princess | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | | 4 | **desire** *in a quote* | present | my parents | head | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 5 | **not** **oblige** *in a quote* | future | parents *= parent* | fortune | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 6 | **bring** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | parents *= parent* *not said here* | mermaid's home | | | | as my bride | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent home=Theme | 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. 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