---
title: "Are you an artist?" said a cavalier, the son of his father; "you pl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Are you an artist?" said a cavalier, the son of his father; "you play on the flute, you have made it yourself; it is genius that rules--the place of honour is due to you." Who acts: you, artist, cavalier, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/104/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Everything in the Right Place](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/) / 104

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 104

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"Are you an artist?" said a cavalier, the son of his father; "you play on the flute, you have made it yourself; it is genius that rules--the place of honour is due to you."

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, artist, cavalier, that · **What happens:** be, say, play, make, rule · **To what, where:** artist, cavalier, flute, genius, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, artist, cavalier, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:155:104
# text = "Are you an artist?" said a cavalier, the son of his father; "you play on the flute, you have made it yourself; it is genius that rules--the place of honour is due to you."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cavalier	cavalier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	8	ccomp	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | a artist |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | a artist | a cavalier |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  | the flute |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | cavalier |  |  |  | yourself *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | cavalier | genius and rules and the place of honour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **rule** *in a quote* |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  | you |  |  | due *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/103/)
- next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/105/)
- ↑ back to [Everything in the Right Place](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/)

