--- title: "Then will you give me the beautiful golden sword and that rich bann… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Then will you give me the beautiful golden sword and that rich banner? and will you give me the emperor's crown?" said the bird. Who acts: you, bird, emperor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/138/) [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/) / [The Nightingale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/) / 138 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 138 "Then will you give me the beautiful golden sword and that rich banner? and will you give me the emperor's crown?" said the bird. **Who acts:** you, bird, emperor · **What happens:** give, say, crown · **To what, where:** beautiful golden sword, bird, crown · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bird, emperor), 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:pg27200:125:138 # text = "Then will you give me the beautiful golden sword and that rich banner? and will you give me the emperor's crown?" said the bird. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 ccomp _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 13 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 banner banner NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** *in a quote* | future | you | the beautiful golden sword and that rich banner | the bird *= bird* | | then | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient sword=Theme | | 2 | **give** *in a quote* | future | you | the emperor's crown | the bird *= bird* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient crown=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the bird | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **crown** *in a quote* | | the emperor | | | | | | nom crown «communication 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 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/137/) - next →: [sentence 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/139/) - ↑ back to [The Nightingale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/)