--- title: Your imperial majesty," said he, "cannot believe everything containe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Your imperial majesty," said he, "cannot believe everything contained in books; sometimes they are only fiction, or what is called the black art." Who acts: imperial majesty, majesty, books. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/30/) [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/) / 30 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 30 Your imperial majesty," said he, "cannot believe everything contained in books; sometimes they are only fiction, or what is called the black art." **Who acts:** imperial majesty, majesty, books · **What happens:** say, not believe, contain, be, call · **To what, where:** everything, books, fiction · **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 (imperial majesty, majesty, books), 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:pg27200:125:30 # text = Your imperial majesty," said he, "cannot believe everything contained in books; sometimes they are only fiction, or what is called the black art." 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 imperial imperial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 13 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 12 obj _ _ 14 contained contain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 18 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 22 advmod _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 fiction fiction NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 parataxis _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 art art NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Your imperial majesty | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **believe** | can | majesty | everything | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | | 3 | **contain** | participle | | | | books | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in book=Location | | 4 | **is a** | present | books *= book* | fiction | | | | sometimes *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | fiction | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/31/) - ↑ back to [The Nightingale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/)