--- title: "There are altars erected to my honor," said the wind, who wished to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "There are altars erected to my honor," said the wind, who wished to say something agreeable to him as he sat there boldly looking down upon the people in the street. Who acts: altars, wind, aeronaut, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Sto --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/169/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Philosopher's Stone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/) / 169 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 169 "There are altars erected to my honor," said the wind, who wished to say something agreeable to him as he sat there boldly looking down upon the people in the street. **Who acts:** altars, wind, aeronaut, my · **What happens:** be, erect, say, wish, sit, look down · **To what, where:** altars, something · **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 (altars, wind, aeronaut, my), 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:pg27200:143:169 # text = "There are altars erected to my honor," said the wind, who wished to say something agreeable to him as he sat there boldly looking down upon the people in the street. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 4 altars altar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 5 erected erect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 honor honor NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 obj _ _ 20 agreeable agreeable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 26 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 27 boldly boldly ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ _ 28 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 29 down down ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 upon upon ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** *in a quote* | present | altars | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **erect** *in a quote* | participle | | altars *not said here* | | | | to my honor | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the wind | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **wish** | past | the wind | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the wind *not said here* | something | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 6 | **sit** | past | aeronaut | | | there | | boldly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **look down** | gerund | aeronaut *not said here* | | | | | upon the people in the street; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon people=Theme | | 8 | **honor** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom honor «communication 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 168](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/168/) - next →: [sentence 170](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/170/) - ↑ back to [The Philosopher's Stone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/)