--- title: "I have spoken to you of Pompeii," said the Moon; "that corpse of a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "I have spoken to you of Pompeii," said the Moon; "that corpse of a city, exposed in the view of living towns: I know another sight still more strange, and this is not the corpse, but the spectre of a city. Who acts: Moon, this. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, Seventeenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon, this), 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:pg27200:108:1 # text = "I have spoken to you of Pompeii," said the Moon; "that corpse of a city, exposed in the view of living towns: I know another sight still more strange, and this is not the corpse, but the spectre of a city. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 ccomp _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Pompeii Pompeii PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 17 corpse corpse NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 ccomp _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 exposed expose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 view view NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 living living ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 32 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 33 det _ _ 33 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 still still ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ _ 36 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 39 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 43 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 corpse corpse NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 but but CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 spectre spectre NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Moon *= moon* | | you | | | of Pompeii | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Moon | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **expose** *in a quote* | participle | | that corpse of a city *not said here* | | the view of living towns | | | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **know** *in a quote* | present | the Moon *= moon* | another sight | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | the corpse but the spectre of a city | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **view** *in a quote* | | | living towns | | | | | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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: [Sixteenth Evening, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/107/6/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/108/2/) - ↑ back to [Seventeenth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/108/)