--- title: The prince clapped his hands with pleasure; but the East Wind advise… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The prince clapped his hands with pleasure; but the East Wind advised him not to express his admiration in that manner, or he might fall down, and find himself hanging on a church steeple. Who acts: prince, East Wind. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, East Wind), 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:pg27200:140:140 # text = The prince clapped his hands with pleasure; but the East Wind advised him not to express his admiration in that manner, or he might fall down, and find himself hanging on a church steeple. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 clapped clap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Wind Wind PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 advised advise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 express express VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 admiration admiration NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 22 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 28 down down ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 32 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 31 obj _ _ 33 hanging hang VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 xcomp _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 steeple steeple NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **clap** | past | the prince | prince's hands | | | | with pleasure | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | | 2 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | the East Wind | hand | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **express** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | prince's admiration | | that manner | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admiration=Theme | | 4 | **fall down** | might | prince | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **find** | infinitive | prince *not said here* | prince | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | | 6 | **hang** | gerund | prince *not said here* | | | a church steeple | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on steeple=Location | | 7 | **admire** | | prince | | | | | | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: 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 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/139/) - next →: [sentence 141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/141/) - ↑ back to [The Garden of Paradise](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/)