--- title: "What a heavy creature you have there!" said the peasant; "it has pl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "What a heavy creature you have there!" said the peasant; "it has plenty of feathers and plenty of fat, and would look well tied to a string, or paddling in the water at our place. Who acts: you, peasant, creature. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, peasant, creature), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:8255`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:132:41 # text = "What a heavy creature you have there!" said the peasant; "it has plenty of feathers and plenty of fat, and would look well tied to a string, or paddling in the water at our place. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 5 det:predet _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 ccomp _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 18 plenty plenty NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 plenty plenty NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 29 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 30 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 xcomp _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 paddling paddle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 conj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | what heavy creature *not said here* | | there | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the peasant | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | creature | plenty of feathers and plenty of fat | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | | 4 | **look** *in a quote* | would | creature *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **tie** *in a quote* | participle | creature *not said here* | | | | | to a string | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to string=Co-Patient | | 6 | **paddle** *in a quote* | gerund | creature *not said here* | | | the water | | at our place | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/132/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/132/42/) - ↑ back to [What the Old Man Does Is Always Right](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/132/)