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title: I must now go to the church steeple and see if the little sprites wh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I must now go to the church steeple and see if the little sprites who live there have polished the bells, so that they may sound sweetly. Who acts: I, little sprites, sprites. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, with its dependency tr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 166

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I must now go to the church steeple and see if the little sprites who live there have polished the bells, so that they may sound sweetly.

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**Who acts:** I, little sprites, sprites · **What happens:** go, see, live, polish, sound · **To what, where:** church steeple, little sprites

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, little sprites, sprites), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:134:166
# text = I must now go to the church steeple and see if the little sprites who live there have polished the bells, so that they may sound sweetly.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	steeple	steeple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sprites	sprite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	27	mark	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
28	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | must | I |  |  | the church steeple | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to steeple=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **live** | present | the little sprites |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **polish** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect · passive |  | the little sprites |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sound** | may | sprites *= sprite* |  |  |  |  | sweetly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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.

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