--- title: Mr. Polly uttered not a syllable in reply, but swung to and fro with… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Mr. Polly uttered not a syllable in reply, but swung to and fro with dignified condescension; while a pretty canary, as yellow as gold, that had lately been brought from his sunny fragrant home, began to sing aloud. Who acts: Polly. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Polly), 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:pg1597:8:112 # text = Mr. Polly uttered not a syllable in reply, but swung to and fro with dignified condescension; while a pretty canary, as yellow as gold, that had lately been brought from his sunny fragrant home, began to sing aloud. 1 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 Polly Polly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 uttered utter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 syllable syllable NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 reply reply NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 swung swing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 11 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 fro fro VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 dignified dignify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 condescension condescension NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 canary canary NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 31 lately lately ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 36 sunny sunny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 fragrant fragrant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 aloud aloud ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **utter** *speech: other* | past | Polly Mr. | a syllable | | reply | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent syllable=Topic | | 2 | **swing** | past | | a pretty canary | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **fro** | infinitive | | | | | | with dignified condescension | tree rules | | 4 | **dignify** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive | | a pretty canary | | Clerk's sunny fragrant home | | lately *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from home=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **begin** | past | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | | | | | | aloud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/111/) - next →: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/113/) - ↑ back to [The Shoes of Fortune, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/)