--- title: Every evening I tickle his neck with my sharp knife; he is so fright… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Every evening I tickle his neck with my sharp knife; he is so frightened at it!” and the little girl drew forth a long knife, from a crack in the wall, and let it glide over the Reindeer's neck. Who acts: I, little girl, knife. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, little girl, knife), 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:pg1597:14:33 # text = Every evening I tickle his neck with my sharp knife; he is so frightened at it!” and the little girl drew forth a long knife, from a crack in the wall, and let it glide over the Reindeer's neck. 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tickle tickle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ! ! PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ” " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 25 forth forth ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 crack crack NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 glide glide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 over over ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 Reindeer Reindeer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 44 's 's PART POS _ 43 case _ _ 45 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tickle** | present | I | reindeer's neck | | | evening | with my sharp knife | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent neck=Experiencer with knife=Instrument | | 2 | **frighten** | present · passive | | reindeer | | neck | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 3 | **draw** *in a quote* | past | the little girl | a long knife | | a crack in the wall | | forth *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent knife=Theme from crack=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | the little girl *= girl* *not said here* | knife | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **glide** *in a quote* | infinitive | knife *not said here* | | | the Reindeer's neck | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over neck=Trajectory | 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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/14/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/14/34/) - ↑ back to [The Snow Queen, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/14/)