--- title: Every evening I have permission to take home to my poor sick mother… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Every evening I have permission to take home to my poor sick mother the scraps from the table; she lives down by the sea-shore, and as I come back I feel tired, and I sit down in the wood to rest, and listen to the nightingale's song. Who acts: I, nightingale. 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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 (I, nightingale), 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:pg27200:125:36 # text = Every evening I have permission to take home to my poor sick mother the scraps from the table; she lives down by the sea-shore, and as I come back I feel tired, and I sit down in the wood to rest, and listen to the nightingale's song. 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 permission permission NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 8 home home ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 11 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 scraps scrap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 down down ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 33 back back ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 36 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 41 down down ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 conj _ _ 50 to to ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 nightingale nightingale NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 53 's 's PART POS _ 52 case _ _ 54 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | I | permission | | | evening | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient | | 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | permission *not said here* | | | | to my poor sick mother the scraps from the table *result*; home *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to mother=Result | | 3 | **live down** | present | nightingale | | | | | by the sea shore | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by shore=Location | | 4 | **come back** | present | I | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **feel** | present | I | | | | | tired *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **sit down** | present | I | | | the wood | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location | | 7 | **rest** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **listen** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | to the nightingale's song | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme | | 9 | **sing** | | the nightingale | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/37/) - ↑ back to [The Nightingale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/)