--- title: Let us leave the soul of the dead to their ball-play with the heads… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Let us leave the soul of the dead to their ball-play with the heads of the walruses,' they thought in their superstition, and they turned their whole attention to the song and dance. Who acts: you, us, inhabitants. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Eveni --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/100/12/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Ninth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/100/) / 12 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 12 Let us leave the soul of the dead to their ball-play with the heads of the walruses,' they thought in their superstition, and they turned their whole attention to the song and dance. **Who acts:** you, us, inhabitants · **What happens:** let, leave, think, turn, play, attend · **To what, where:** us, soul, ball play, superstition, whole attention, song This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, inhabitants), 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:pg27200:100:12 # text = Let us leave the soul of the dead to their ball-play with the heads of the walruses,' they thought in their superstition, and they turned their whole attention to the song and dance. 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 nmod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 11 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 walruses walrus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 superstition superstition NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **leave** | infinitive | us *not said here* | the soul of the dead | inhabitants's ball play with the heads of the walruses | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent soul=Theme to play=Recipient | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | inhabitants *= inhabitant* | | | inhabitants's superstition | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **turn** | past | inhabitants *= inhabitant* | inhabitants's whole attention | | the song and dance | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent attention=Theme to song=Trajectory | | 5 | **play** | | inhabitants *= inhabitant* | | | | | with the heads of the walruses | nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl | | 6 | **attend** | | inhabitants *= inhabitant* | | | | | | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: 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:** «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/pg27200/100/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/100/13/) - ↑ back to [Ninth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/100/)