--- title: Thus saying he handed to the tutor the flute which had been cut from… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Thus saying he handed to the tutor the flute which had been cut from the willow tree by the pool; and then announced in a loud voice that the tutor wished to perform a solo on the flute. Who acts: artist, pool, tutor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everythi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/108/) [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/) / 108 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 108 Thus saying he handed to the tutor the flute which had been cut from the willow tree by the pool; and then announced in a loud voice that the tutor wished to perform a solo on the flute. **Who acts:** artist, pool, tutor · **What happens:** say, hand, cut, announce, wish, perform · **To what, where:** flute, tutor, willow tree, loud voice, solo · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (artist, pool, tutor), 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:pg27200:155:108 # text = Thus saying he handed to the tutor the flute which had been cut from the willow tree by the pool; and then announced in a loud voice that the tutor wished to perform a solo on the flute. 1 Thus thus ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 handed hand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 tutor tutor NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 flute flute NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 willow willow NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 24 announced announce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 obj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 tutor tutor NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 perform perform VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 solo solo NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 flute flute NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | artist *not said here* | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hand** | past | artist | the flute | | the tutor | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flute=Theme to tutor=Destination | | 3 | **cut** | past · perfect · passive | the pool | the flute | | the willow tree | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset subject=Product from tree=Material | | 4 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | artist *not said here* | | | a loud voice | then | | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **wish** | past | the tutor | a loud voice | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **perform** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the tutor *not said here* | a solo | | the flute | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent solo=Theme | 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 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/109/) - ↑ back to [Everything in the Right Place](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/)