--- title: Little Molly and Anthony often stood by this mountain, and one day M… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Little Molly and Anthony often stood by this mountain, and one day Molly said, "Do you dare to knock and say, 'Lady Halle, Lady Halle, open the door: Tannhauser is here!'" Who acts: Little Molly, Molly, you, Tannhauser. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (Little Molly, Molly, you, Tannhauser), 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:pg27200:128:84 # text = Little Molly and Anthony often stood by this mountain, and one day Molly said, "Do you dare to knock and say, 'Lady Halle, Lady Halle, open the door: Tannhauser is here!'" 1 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Molly Molly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 Anthony Anthony PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 Molly Molly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 dare dare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 knock knock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 Lady Lady PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 Halle Halle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Lady Lady PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 Halle Halle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 open open VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 : : PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 37 Tannhauser Tannhauser PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | Little Molly and Anthony | | | | | by this mountain; often *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Molly | | | | day | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **dare** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | Lady Halle and Lady | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **knock** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **open** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the door | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Tannhauser | | | | | here *property* | tree rules | 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 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/85/) - ↑ back to [The Old Bachelor's Nightcap](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/)