--- title: Now I'll retire to rest!" sang the Bell, and flew down into the Oden… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Now I'll retire to rest!" sang the Bell, and flew down into the Odense-Au, where it is deepest; and that is why the place is called the "bell-deep." Who acts: I, Bell, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Bell-deep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Bell, that), 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:pg27200:10:12 # text = Now I'll retire to rest!" sang the Bell, and flew down into the Odense-Au, where it is deepest; and that is why the place is called the "bell-deep." 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 retire retire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Bell Bell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 down down ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 Odense Odense PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Au Au PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 25 advmod _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 deepest deep ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 parataxis _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 advcl:relcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **retire** | future | I | | | | now | | tree rules | | 2 | **rest** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | | the Bell | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fly down** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | into the Odense Au *result*; down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into au=Result | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Bell | | | | | deep *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **call** *in a quote* | present · passive | | the place | | | | deep *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/10/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/10/13/) - ↑ back to [The Bell-deep](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/10/)