--- title: "I am getting beautifully fat," said the pea, "I expect I shall burs… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "I am getting beautifully fat," said the pea, "I expect I shall burst at last; no pea could do more that that, I think; I am the most remarkable of all the five which were in the shell." Who acts: pea. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (pea), 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:pg27200:141:50 # text = "I am getting beautifully fat," said the pea, "I expect I shall burst at last; no pea could do more that that, I think; I am the most remarkable of all the five which were in the shell." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 5 beautifully beautifully ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 pea pea NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 expect expect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 burst burst VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 23 pea pea NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 26 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 obj _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 34 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 37 advmod _ _ 37 remarkable remarkable NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 41 det:predet _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nmod _ _ 42 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 46 nsubj _ _ 43 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the pea *= pea* | | | | | fat *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the pea | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **expect** *in a quote* | present | the pea *= pea* | the pea *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **burst** *not said to happen, in a quote* | shall | the pea *= pea* | | | last | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | could | no pea | more | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | the pea *= pea* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the pea *= pea* | the remarkable | | | | of all five | tree rules | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | past | | | | the shell | | | tree rules | 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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/141/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/141/51/) - ↑ back to [The Pea Blossom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/141/)