--- title: "If you take the second glass--from this a little bird soars upward,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "If you take the second glass--from this a little bird soars upward, twittering in guileless cheerfulness, so that a man may listen to his song, and perhaps join in 'Fair is life! no downcast looks! Who acts: you, downcast, man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, Second Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, downcast, man), 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:pg27200:137:15 # text = "If you take the second glass--from this a little bird soars upward, twittering in guileless cheerfulness, so that a man may listen to his song, and perhaps join in 'Fair is life! no downcast looks! 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 7 amod _ _ 7 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 -- -- PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 nsubj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 14 soars soar VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 advcl _ _ 15 upward upward ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 twittering twitter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 guileless guileless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 cheerfulness cheerfulness NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 27 mark _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 join join VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 Fair Fair PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ 41 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 42 det _ _ 42 downcast downcast NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ! ! PUNCT . _ 43 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | the second glass | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme | | 2 | **soar** *in a quote* | present | no downcast *not said here* | | | | | from a little bird; upward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from bird=Trajectory | | 3 | **twitter** *in a quote* | gerund | no downcast *not said here* | | | guileless cheerfulness | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **listen** *in a quote* | may | a man | | | | | to man's song | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme | | 5 | **join** *in a quote* | present | no downcast *not said here* | | | | | perhaps *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | Fair life | | | tree rules | | 7 | **look** *in a quote* | present | no downcast | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **sing** *in a quote* | | man | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/137/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/137/16/) - ↑ back to [Second Visit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/137/)