--- title: "'I shall read yours also,' said Maecenas; 'but to speak honestly--y… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "'I shall read yours also,' said Maecenas; 'but to speak honestly--you know I never hide my opinion from you--I don't expect much from it, for you are much too wild, too fantastic. Who acts: Maecenas, you, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maecenas, you, my), 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:pg27200:103:39 # text = "'I shall read yours also,' said Maecenas; 'but to speak honestly--you know I never hide my opinion from you--I don't expect much from it, for you are much too wild, too fantastic. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 6 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 also also ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 Maecenas Maecenas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 17 honestly honestly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 -- -- PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 opinion opinion NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 -- -- PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 31 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 expect expect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 parataxis _ _ 33 much much ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 37 for for SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 39 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 40 much much ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 41 too too ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 too too ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 fantastic fantastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** *in a quote* | shall | Maecenas | yours | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent your=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Maecenas | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | honestly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **hide** *in a quote* | present | Maecenas | my opinion | | | | from you | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient from you=Beneficiary | | 6 | **not** **expect** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Maecenas | | | opinion | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | wild *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **be** *in a quote* | | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **opine** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: 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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/103/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/103/40/) - ↑ back to [Twelfth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/103/)