--- title: “That I will not tell thee,” said Death; “but this thou shalt know f… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “That I will not tell thee,” said Death; “but this thou shalt know from me, that the one flower was thy own child! it was thy child's fate thou saw'st--thy own child's future life!” Who acts: Death, this, one flower, own child. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Death, this, one flower, own child), 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:pg1597:21:81 # text = “That I will not tell thee,” said Death; “but this thou shalt know from me, that the one flower was thy own child! it was thy child's fate thou saw'st--thy own child's future life!” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 obl _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 7 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 Death Death PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 nsubj _ _ 16 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 nsubj _ _ 17 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ! ! PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 33 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 parataxis _ _ 37 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 38 nsubj _ _ 38 saw'st saw'st NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 -- -- PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 43 's 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 future future ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ! ! PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ” " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | Death | That | thee | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Death | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **know** *in a quote* | shall | this | | | | | from Death | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the one flower | thy own child | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | thy own child | thy child's fate and saw'st and thy own child's future life | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **saw'st** *in a quote* | | thou | | | | | | tree rules | 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 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/21/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/21/82/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Mother](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/21/)