--- title: "It will be worse when my sons come home," replied the woman; "you a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "It will be worse when my sons come home," replied the woman; "you are now in the cavern of the Winds, and my sons are the four Winds of heaven: can you understand that?" Who acts: draught, sons, woman, you. 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 (draught, sons, woman, 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:pg27200:140:16 # text = "It will be worse when my sons come home," replied the woman; "you are now in the cavern of the Winds, and my sons are the four Winds of heaven: can you understand that?" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 10 home home ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 20 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 cavern cavern NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Winds Wind PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 Winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 appos _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 : : PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ _ 41 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ? ? PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | future | draught | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present | my sons | | | | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **reply** *speech: ask* | past | the woman | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | the cavern | now | of the Winds | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | my sons | the four Winds | | | | of heaven | tree rules | | 6 | **understand** *in a quote* | can | you | that | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/17/) - ↑ back to [The Garden of Paradise](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/)