--- title: "But the book in which I have read this account," said the emperor,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "But the book in which I have read this account," said the emperor, "was sent to me by the great and mighty emperor of Japan, and therefore it cannot contain a falsehood. Who acts: emperor, great emperor, account. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nighting --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/31/) [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/) / 31 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 31 "But the book in which I have read this account," said the emperor, "was sent to me by the great and mighty emperor of Japan, and therefore it cannot contain a falsehood. **Who acts:** emperor, great emperor, account · **What happens:** read, say, send, not contain · **To what, where:** account, book, emperor, falsehood · **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 (emperor, great emperor, account), 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:pg27200:125:31 # text = "But the book in which I have read this account," said the emperor, "was sent to me by the great and mighty emperor of Japan, and therefore it cannot contain a falsehood. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 obl _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 read read VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 acl:relcl _ _ 10 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 11 account account NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 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 , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 28 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 33 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 contain contain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 falsehood falsehood NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the emperor *= emperor* | this account | | the book | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the emperor | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **send** *in a quote* | past · passive | the great emperor of Japan | | the emperor *= emperor* | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to i=Destination | | 4 | **not** **contain** *in a quote* | can | account | a falsehood | | | | therefore *property* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot falsehood=Theme | 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/32/) - ↑ back to [The Nightingale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/)