--- title: You stood very seriously all together, although it was difficult eno… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: You stood very seriously all together, although it was difficult enough; but I laughed to myself, and then I fell off the table, and got a bump, which I have still--for it was not right of me to laugh. Who acts: You, I, music. 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 (You, I, music), 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:pg1597:19:78 # text = You stood very seriously all together, although it was difficult enough; but I laughed to myself, and then I fell off the table, and got a bump, which I have still--for it was not right of me to laugh. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 seriously seriously ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 all all ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 together together ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 although although SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 expl _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 difficult difficult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 12 enough enough ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 24 off off ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 bump bump NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 obj _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 36 still still ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 -- -- PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 for for SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 obl _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | You | | | | | seriously, together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | | | | | | difficult, enough *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **laugh** | past | I | | myself | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to myself=Recipient | | 4 | **fall off** | past | I | the table | | | then | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient table=Extent | | 5 | **get** | past | | a bump | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bump=Stimulus | | 6 | **have** | present | I | a bump | | | still | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | | 7 | **not** **is** | past | music | | | | | of me; right *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **laugh** | to-infinitive | music *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/19/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/19/79/) - ↑ back to [The Old House](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/19/)