--- title: This is called drinking “Duus”: they are then, “Duus Brodre,” (thou… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: This is called drinking “Duus”: they are then, “Duus Brodre,” (thou brothers) and ever afterwards use the pronoun “thou,” to each other, it being regarded as more familiar than “De,” (you). Who acts: acquaintances, thou. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/23/118/) [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 Shadow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/23/) / 118 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 118 This is called drinking “Duus”: they are then, “Duus Brodre,” (thou brothers) and ever afterwards use the pronoun “thou,” to each other, it being regarded as more familiar than “De,” (you). **Who acts:** acquaintances, thou · **What happens:** call, drink, be, brother, use, regard · **To what, where:** This, Duus, pronoun · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (acquaintances, thou), 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:pg1597:23:118 # text = This is called drinking “Duus”: they are then, “Duus Brodre,” (thou brothers) and ever afterwards use the pronoun “thou,” to each other, it being regarded as more familiar than “De,” (you). 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 drinking drink VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 5 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Duus Duus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Duus Duus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 Brodre Brodre PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ” " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 20 nsubj _ _ 20 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 25 advmod _ _ 24 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 pronoun pronoun NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 “ " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ” " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 25 obl _ _ 34 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 regarded regard VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 39 as as SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 41 amod _ _ 41 familiar familiar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 42 than than ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 “ " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 De De PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 47 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | This | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **drink** | gerund | | Duus | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duus=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | acquaintances *= acquaintance* | | | | | then *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **brother** | | thou | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **use** | present | | the pronoun | | | ever | to each; afterwards *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pronoun=Patient | | 6 | **regard** | gerund · passive | | pronoun | | | | familiar *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/23/117/) - next →: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/23/119/) - ↑ back to [The Shadow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/23/)