--- title: "'Yes,' I replied; 'for I am welcomed in every town, when I arrive w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "'Yes,' I replied; 'for I am welcomed in every town, when I arrive with my company; but I certainly have one wish which sometimes weighs upon my cheerful temper like a mountain of lead. Who acts: series, one wish, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pupp --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/152/28/) [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 Puppet-show Man](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/152/) / 28 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 28 "'Yes,' I replied; 'for I am welcomed in every town, when I arrive with my company; but I certainly have one wish which sometimes weighs upon my cheerful temper like a mountain of lead. **Who acts:** series, one wish, my · **What happens:** reply, welcome, arrive, have, weigh, temper · **To what, where:** series, town, one wish This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (series, one wish, 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:pg27200:152:28 # text = "'Yes,' I replied; 'for I am welcomed in every town, when I arrive with my company; but I certainly have one wish which sometimes weighs upon my cheerful temper like a mountain of lead. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 for for SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 welcomed welcome VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 16 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 arrive arrive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 32 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 33 advmod _ _ 33 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 upon upon ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 cheerful cheerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 temper temper NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 like like ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | series | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **welcome** *in a quote* | present · passive | | series | | every town | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in town=Location | | 3 | **arrive** *in a quote* | present | series | | | | | with my company | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | series | one wish | | | | certainly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | | 5 | **weigh** *in a quote* | present | one wish | | | | | upon my cheerful temper; like a mountain of lead; sometimes *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **temper** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom temper «feeling 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/152/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/152/29/) - ↑ back to [The Puppet-show Man](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/152/)