--- title: "Grow and thrive if you can, and produce a good flute for them yonde… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Grow and thrive if you can, and produce a good flute for them yonder at the mansion," he said; it would have given him great pleasure to see the noble baron and his companions well thrashed. Who acts: child, companions. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (child, companions), 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:pg27200:155:14 # text = "Grow and thrive if you can, and produce a good flute for them yonder at the mansion," he said; it would have given him great pleasure to see the noble baron and his companions well thrashed. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 thrive thrive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 produce produce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 flute flute NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nmod _ _ 16 yonder yonder ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 mansion mansion NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux _ _ 28 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 ccomp _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 noble noble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 baron baron NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 companions companion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 40 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 41 advmod _ _ 41 thrashed thrash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **thrive** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **produce** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a good flute | | the mansion | | for branches *= branch*; yonder *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent flute=Result for they=Beneficiary | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | child | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **give** | would · perfect · passive | | flute | child | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | | the noble baron | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baron=Stimulus | | 7 | **thrash** | participle | child's companions | | | | | well *property* | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/15/) - ↑ back to [Everything in the Right Place](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/)