--- title: I became so tired, so heavy, that the beam broke, and I flew out int… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: I became so tired, so heavy, that the beam broke, and I flew out into the gleaming Au, where the water is deepest, and where the Au-mann lives, solitary and alone; and year by year I tell him what I have heard and what I know. Who acts: I, beam, water. 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C. 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, beam, 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:pg27200:10:48 # text = I became so tired, so heavy, that the beam broke, and I flew out into the gleaming Au, where the water is deepest, and where the Au-mann lives, solitary and alone; and year by year I tell him what I have heard and what I know. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 beam beam NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 out out ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 gleaming gleam VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 amod _ _ 21 Au Au PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 27 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 deepest deep ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 2 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 32 Au Au PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 mann Mann PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 solitary solitary NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 alone alone ADV RB _ 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ; ; PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 42 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl:unmarked _ _ 43 by by ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 45 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 47 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 iobj _ _ 48 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 51 obj _ _ 49 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 50 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 51 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 46 ccomp _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 51 conj _ _ 54 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 55 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | I | | | | | tired *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **break** | past | the beam | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **fly out** | past | I | | | | | into the gleaming Au *result*; out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into au=Result | | 4 | **gleam** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | the water | | | | | deep *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | I | | life | | year | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **hear** | present · perfect | I | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 8 | **know** | present | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/10/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/10/49/) - ↑ back to [The Bell-deep](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/10/)