--- title: "If I deserted the lowly house, where the fortunes of my sons first… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "If I deserted the lowly house, where the fortunes of my sons first began to bloom, fortune would desert them!" Who acts: Moon, fortunes, fortune. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-fourth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/115/18/) [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/) / [Twenty-fourth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/115/) / 18 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-fourth Evening, sentence 18 "If I deserted the lowly house, where the fortunes of my sons first began to bloom, fortune would desert them!" **Who acts:** Moon, fortunes, fortune · **What happens:** desert, begin, bloom · **To what, where:** lowly house, sons This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-fourth 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, fortunes, fortune), 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:pg27200:115:18 # text = "If I deserted the lowly house, where the fortunes of my sons first began to bloom, fortune would desert them!" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 deserted desert VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 lowly lowly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 9 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 16 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 fortunes fortune NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 16 advmod _ _ 16 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 bloom bloom VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 desert desert VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **desert** *in a quote* | past | the Moon *= moon* | the lowly house | | | | | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme house=Source | | 2 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | the fortunes of my sons | | | | | first *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **bloom** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the fortunes of my sons *not said here* | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **desert** *in a quote* | would | fortune | sons *= son* | | | | | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme they=Source | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/115/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/115/19/) - ↑ back to [Twenty-fourth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/115/)