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title: You, poor little mermaid, have tried with your whole heart to do as… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: You, poor little mermaid, have tried with your whole heart to do as we are doing; you have suffered and endured and raised yourself to the spirit-world by your good deeds; and now, by striving for three hundred years in the same way, you may obtain an immortal soul." Who acts: You, we. A sentence of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 47

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You, poor little mermaid, have tried with your whole heart to do as we are doing; you have suffered and endured and raised yourself to the spirit-world by your good deeds; and now, by striving for three hundred years in the same way, you may obtain an immortal soul."

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**Who acts:** You, we · **What happens:** try, do, suffer, endure, raise, strive · **To what, where:** yourself, spirit world, 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 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, we), 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:pg27200:78:47
# text = You, poor little mermaid, have tried with your whole heart to do as we are doing; you have suffered and endured and raised yourself to the spirit-world by your good deeds; and now, by striving for three hundred years in the same way, you may obtain an immortal soul."
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	endured	endure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
27	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	54	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
39	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	54	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
41	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
42	striving	strive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	54	advcl	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	compound	_	_
45	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
46	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
52	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
55	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	immortal	immortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	54	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | present · perfect | You |  |  |  |  | with your whole heart | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | present · progressive | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **suffer** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **endure** | past | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **raise** | past | you *not said here* | yourself |  | the spirit world |  | by your good deeds | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme to world=Destination by deed=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **strive** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **obtain** | may | you | a immortal soul |  |  | now |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=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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