--- title: Before the sun rises you must plunge it into the heart of the prince… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Before the sun rises you must plunge it into the heart of the prince; when the warm blood falls upon your feet they will grow together again, and form into a fish's tail, and you will be once more a mermaid, and return to us to live out your three hundred years before you die and change into the sal --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/78/26/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Little Mermaid, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/78/) / 26 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 26 Before the sun rises you must plunge it into the heart of the prince; when the warm blood falls upon your feet they will grow together again, and form into a fish's tail, and you will be once more a mermaid, and return to us to live out your three hundred years before you die and change into the salt sea foam. **Who acts:** you, warm blood, feet · **What happens:** rise, plunge, fall, grow, form, be · **To what, where:** help, heart, feet, tail, us, sea foam This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, warm blood, feet), 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:pg27200:78:26 # text = Before the sun rises you must plunge it into the heart of the prince; when the warm blood falls upon your feet they will grow together again, and form into a fish's tail, and you will be once more a mermaid, and return to us to live out your three hundred years before you die and change into the salt sea foam. 1 Before before ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 4 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 plunge plunge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 when when SCONJ WRB _ 20 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 21 upon upon ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 together together ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 again again ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 form form VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 40 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 cop _ _ 42 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 43 advmod _ _ 43 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 conj _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 mermaid mermaid NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 return return VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 49 to to ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 obl _ _ 51 to to PART TO _ 52 mark _ _ 52 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 advcl _ _ 53 out out ADP RP _ 52 compound:prt _ _ 54 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 57 nmod:poss _ _ 55 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 56 compound _ _ 56 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 57 nummod _ _ 57 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obl _ _ 58 before before SCONJ IN _ 60 mark _ _ 59 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 60 nsubj _ _ 60 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 advcl _ _ 61 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 62 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 60 conj _ _ 63 into into ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 65 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 compound _ _ 66 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 compound _ _ 67 foam foam NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 68 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | present | | | | | before the sun | | tree rules | | 2 | **plunge** | must | you | help | | the heart of the prince | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fall** | present | the warm blood | | | your feet | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon foot=Location | | 4 | **grow** | future | feet *= foot* | your feet *not said here* | | | again | together *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foot=Theme | | 5 | **form** | present | the warm blood *not said here* | | | a fish's tail | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | future | you | | | | | more, once *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **return** | infinitive | | | us | | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to we=Result | | 8 | **live out** | to-infinitive | | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **die** | present | you | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 10 | **change** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | into the sea foam *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into foam=Result | 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. 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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/78/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/78/27/) - ↑ back to [The Little Mermaid, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/78/)