--- title: There stood a little boy, quite naked, and the water ran down from h… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: There stood a little boy, quite naked, and the water ran down from his long golden hair; he trembled with cold, and had he not come into a warm room he would most certainly have perished in the frightful tempest. Who acts: water. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/26/8/) [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/) / 8 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 8 There stood a little boy, quite naked, and the water ran down from his long golden hair; he trembled with cold, and had he not come into a warm room he would most certainly have perished in the frightful tempest. **Who acts:** water · **What happens:** stand, run down, tremble, have, not come, perish · **To what, where:** little boy, long golden hair, warm room, frightful tempest 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 (water), 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:pg1597:26:8 # text = There stood a little boy, quite naked, and the water ran down from his long golden hair; he trembled with cold, and had he not come into a warm room he would most certainly have perished in the frightful tempest. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 quite quite ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 naked naked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 down down ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 17 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 trembled tremble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 36 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 37 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 38 advmod _ _ 38 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 perished perish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 acl:relcl _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 frightful frightful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 tempest tempest NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | | a little boy | | there | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus | | 2 | **run down** | past | the water | | | water's long golden hair | | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hair=Trajectory | | 3 | **tremble** | past | water | | | | | with cold | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **come** | infinitive | water | | | a warm room | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **perish** | would · perfect | water | a warm room *not said here* | | the frightful tempest | | certainly *property* | 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/26/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/26/9/) - ↑ back to [The Naughty Boy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/26/)