--- title: It is quite impossible for them to know him, and they walk along wit… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: It is quite impossible for them to know him, and they walk along with him arm in arm, as if he, too, were a student like themselves; and then, unperceived, he thrusts an arrow to their bosom. Who acts: students, child. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy, with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/26/37/) [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 Naughty Boy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/26/) / 37 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 37 It is quite impossible for them to know him, and they walk along with him arm in arm, as if he, too, were a student like themselves; and then, unperceived, he thrusts an arrow to their bosom. **Who acts:** students, child · **What happens:** be, know, walk, unperceiv, thrust, bosom · **To what, where:** child, arm, student, arrow, bosom This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (students, 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:pg1597:26:37 # text = It is quite impossible for them to know him, and they walk along with him arm in arm, as if he, too, were a student like themselves; and then, unperceived, he thrusts an arrow to their bosom. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 expl _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 quite quite ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 impossible impossible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 for for SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 csubj _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 along along ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 17 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 too too ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 student student NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 30 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 unperceived unperceiv VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 thrusts thrust VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 40 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 arrow arrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 bosom bosom NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | impossible *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | to-infinitive | students *= student* | child | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 3 | **walk** | present | students *= student* | arm in arm | | | | with child; along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | child | a student | | | | like students *= student* | tree rules | | 5 | **unperceiv** | participle | | | | | then | | tree rules | | 6 | **thrust** | present | child | a arrow | | students's bosom | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme to bosom=Destination | | 7 | **bosom** | | students *= student* | | | | | | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/26/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/26/38/) - ↑ back to [The Naughty Boy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/26/)