--- title: "You must not look only on the sorrowful side," said the little boy;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "You must not look only on the sorrowful side," said the little boy; "I think everything in this house is beautiful, and all the old pleasant thoughts come back here to pay visits." Who acts: You, little boy, everything, old pleasant thoughts. 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C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, little boy, everything, old pleasant thoughts), 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:pg27200:131:72 # text = "You must not look only on the sorrowful side," said the little boy; "I think everything in this house is beautiful, and all the old pleasant thoughts come back here to pay visits." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 sorrowful sorrowful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 26 nsubj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 24 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 33 det:predet _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 35 back back ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ _ 39 visits visit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **look** *in a quote* | must | You | | | | | on the sorrowful side | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on side=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the little boy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | the little boy *= boy* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | everything | | | | | beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **come back** *in a quote* | present | all old pleasant thoughts | | | here | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **pay** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | all old pleasant thoughts *not said here* | visits | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset | 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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/131/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/131/73/) - ↑ back to [The Old House](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/131/)