--- title: You arrived as soon as your letter, and you were so handsome--that y… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: You arrived as soon as your letter, and you were so handsome--that you still are--and had a long yellow silk handkerchief round your neck, and a bran new hat on; oh, you were so dashing! Who acts: You, bran, your. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush, with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/68/) [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/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/) / [The Elderbush](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/) / 68 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 68 You arrived as soon as your letter, and you were so handsome--that you still are--and had a long yellow silk handkerchief round your neck, and a bran new hat on; oh, you were so dashing! **Who acts:** You, bran, your · **What happens:** arrive, be, have, hat on, dash, letter · **To what, where:** long yellow silk handkerchief This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, bran, your), 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:pg1597:17:68 # text = You arrived as soon as your letter, and you were so handsome--that you still are--and had a long yellow silk handkerchief round your neck, and a bran new hat on; oh, you were so dashing! 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 as as ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 -- -- PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 still still ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 -- -- PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 23 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 24 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 handkerchief handkerchief NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 27 round round ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 bran bran NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 35 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 oh oh INTJ UH _ 43 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 41 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 so so ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 dashing dash VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrive** | past | You | | | | | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | you | | | | | handsome *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **does** | present | you | | | | still | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past | | a long yellow silk handkerchief | | | | round your neck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient | | 5 | **hat on** | | a bran | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **dash** | past · progressive | you | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **letter** | | your | | | | | | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/69/) - ↑ back to [The Elderbush](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/)