--- title: He would have been glad to call out "Lady Halle, Lady Halle, unlock… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He would have been glad to call out "Lady Halle, Lady Halle, unlock the mountain. Who acts: castle. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/159/) [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 Old Bachelor's Nightcap](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/) / 159 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 159 He would have been glad to call out "Lady Halle, Lady Halle, unlock the mountain. **Who acts:** castle · **What happens:** be, call out, unlock · **To what, where:** mountain · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle), 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:pg27200:128:159 # text = He would have been glad to call out "Lady Halle, Lady Halle, unlock the mountain. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux _ _ 4 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 cop _ _ 5 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 8 out out ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Lady Lady PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Halle Halle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Lady Lady PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 Halle Halle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 unlock unlock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | would · perfect | castle | | | | | glad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **call out** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | castle *not said here* | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **unlock** *in a quote* | infinitive | castle *not said here* | the mountain | | | | | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient | 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 158](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/158/) - next →: [sentence 160](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/160/) - ↑ back to [The Old Bachelor's Nightcap](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/)