--- title: He had a cheerful temper, and was, besides, a real poet; he could ma… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He had a cheerful temper, and was, besides, a real poet; he could make many things appear poetical, by the way in which he spoke of them, and ideas struck him long before they occurred to the minds of others. " Who acts: tumult, many things, ideas. 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" **Who acts:** tumult, many things, ideas · **What happens:** have, be, make, appear, speak, strike · **To what, where:** cheerful temper, real poet, way, tumult, others · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tumult, many things, ideas), 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:pg27200:143:116 # text = He had a cheerful temper, and was, besides, a real poet; he could make many things appear poetical, by the way in which he spoke of them, and ideas struck him long before they occurred to the minds of others. " 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 cheerful cheerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 temper temper NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 besides besides INTJ UH _ 14 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 poet poet NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 19 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 appear appear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 22 poetical poetical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 obl _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 39 before before SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 occurred occur VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 minds mind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | tumult | a cheerful temper | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | past | | a real poet | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | could | tumult | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **appear** | present | many things | | | | | by the way; poetical *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by way=Location | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | tumult | | | the way | | of ways *= way* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **strike** | past | ideas | tumult | | | | long *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument | | 7 | **occur** | past | ideas *= idea* | | | | | to the minds of others | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **mind** | | | others | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/115/) - next →: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/117/) - ↑ back to [The Philosopher's Stone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/)