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title: "Mother, I believe I shall get well," said the sick child in the eve… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Mother, I believe I shall get well," said the sick child in the evening, "the sun has shone in here so brightly and warmly to-day, and the little pea is thriving so well: I shall get on better, too, and go out into the warm sunshine again." Who acts: sick child, little pea. A sentence of «Fairy Tal
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 37

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"Mother, I believe I shall get well," said the sick child in the evening, "the sun has shone in here so brightly and warmly to-day, and the little pea is thriving so well: I shall get on better, too, and go out into the warm sunshine again."

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**Who acts:** sick child, little pea · **What happens:** believe, get, say, shine, thrive, get on · **To what, where:** sun, warm sunshine · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sick child, little pea), 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:pg27200:141:37
# text = "Mother, I believe I shall get well," said the sick child in the evening, "the sun has shone in here so brightly and warmly to-day, and the little pea is thriving so well: I shall get on better, too, and go out into the warm sunshine again."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	obl	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	warmly	warmly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	thriving	thrive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
41	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
44	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	_
47	on	on	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	46	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	too	too	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	conj	_	_
54	out	out	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
55	into	into	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
59	again	again	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** *in a quote* | present | the sick child *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | shall | the sick child *= child* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the sick child |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **shine** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the sun |  |  |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **thrive** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the little pea |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **get on** *in a quote* | shall | the sick child *= child* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **go out** *in a quote* | infinitive | the sick child *= child* *not said here* |  |  | the warm sunshine | again | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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