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title: I lie on the sea,” said Corsor; “I have high roads and gardens, and… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I lie on the sea,” said Corsor; “I have high roads and gardens, and I have given birth to a poet who was witty and amusing, which all poets are not. Who acts: I, Corsor, poet. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 42

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I lie on the sea,” said Corsor; “I have high roads and gardens, and I have given birth to a poet who was witty and amusing, which all poets are not.

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**Who acts:** I, Corsor, poet · **What happens:** lie, say, have, give, be, not poet · **To what, where:** sea, high roads, birth, poet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Corsor, poet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg1597:25:42
# text = I lie on the sea,” said Corsor; “I have high roads and gardens, and I have given birth to a poet who was witty and amusing, which all poets are not.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	Corsor	Corsor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
23	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	witty	witty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	amusing	amusing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	poets	poet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | I |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sea=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Corsor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | I | high roads and gardens |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | present · perfect | I | birth | a poet and all poets |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to poet=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | past | a poet and all poets |  |  |  |  | witty *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | a poet and all poets *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **poet** |  | a poet and all poets |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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.

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