--- title: "It is my pleasure that she shall appear this evening." said the emp… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "It is my pleasure that she shall appear this evening." said the emperor; "the whole world knows what I possess better than I do myself." Who acts: pleasure, emperor, whole world. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/25/) [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/) / 25 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 25 "It is my pleasure that she shall appear this evening." said the emperor; "the whole world knows what I possess better than I do myself." **Who acts:** pleasure, emperor, whole world · **What happens:** be, appear, say, know, possess, do · **To what, where:** pleasure, better, emperor · **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 (pleasure, emperor, whole world), 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:pg27200:125:25 # text = "It is my pleasure that she shall appear this evening." said the emperor; "the whole world knows what I possess better than I do myself." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 expl _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 appear appear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 csubj _ _ 10 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 11 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 23 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 25 obj _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 possess possess VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 26 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 obj _ _ 27 than than SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 30 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 29 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | my pleasure | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **appear** *in a quote* | shall | pleasure | | | | evening | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the emperor | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **know** *in a quote* | present | the whole world | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **possess** *in a quote* | present | the emperor *= emperor* | better | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **do** *in a quote* | present | the emperor *= emperor* | the emperor *= emperor* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/26/) - ↑ back to [The Nightingale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/)