--- title: I am extremely glad to hear of thy good fortune: sit down, old frien… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: I am extremely glad to hear of thy good fortune: sit down, old friend, and tell me a little how it has gone with thee, and what thou hast seen at our opposite neighbor's there--in the warm lands.” Who acts: I, friend, thou. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/23/91/) [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/) / 91 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 91 I am extremely glad to hear of thy good fortune: sit down, old friend, and tell me a little how it has gone with thee, and what thou hast seen at our opposite neighbor's there--in the warm lands.” **Who acts:** I, friend, thou · **What happens:** be, hear, sit down, tell, go, see · **To what, where:** old friend, little, me, opposite neighbor · **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 (I, friend, 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:pg1597:23:91 # text = I am extremely glad to hear of thy good fortune: sit down, old friend, and tell me a little how it has gone with thee, and what thou hast seen at our opposite neighbor's there--in the warm lands.” 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 extremely extremely ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 sit sit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 down down ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 34 obj _ _ 32 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 34 nsubj _ _ 33 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 opposite opposite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 neighbor neighbor NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 -- -- PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | I | | | | | extremely, glad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | of thy good fortune | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of fortune=Stimulus | | 3 | **sit down** | infinitive | | old friend | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | a little | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 5 | **go** | present · perfect | friend | | | | | with thee | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with thou=Beneficiary | | 6 | **see** | present · perfect | thou | | | our opposite neighbor; there | | in the warm lands | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | 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 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/23/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/23/92/) - ↑ back to [The Shadow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/23/)