--- title: He'll sit at your ear and whisper merry thoughts to you; he'll creep… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He'll sit at your ear and whisper merry thoughts to you; he'll creep into your heart and warm you, so that you grow very merry, and become a wit, so far as the wits of the others can judge. Who acts: child, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, you), 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:pg27200:137:18 # text = He'll sit at your ear and whisper merry thoughts to you; he'll creep into your heart and warm you, so that you grow very merry, and become a wit, so far as the wits of the others can judge. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 whisper whisper VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 creep creep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 warm warm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 27 mark _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 fixed _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 28 very very ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 become become VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 wit wit NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 45 advmod _ _ 38 as as ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 wits wit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ _ 44 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 judge judge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | future | child | | | your ear | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at ear=Location | | 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | present | child *not said here* | merry thoughts | you | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thought=Topic to you=Recipient | | 3 | **creep** | future | child | | | your heart | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into heart=Destination | | 4 | **warm** | infinitive | child *not said here* | you | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 5 | **grow** | present | you | | | | | merry *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **become** | infinitive | | a wit | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **judge** | can | child *not said here* | | | | | far *property* | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/137/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/137/19/) - ↑ back to [Second Visit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/137/)