--- title: "That's a bad pastime," he said; "when the devil saw the Bible for t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "That's a bad pastime," he said; "when the devil saw the Bible for the first time he wanted to produce a caricature in opposition to it, and invented card-playing." Who acts: That, playing, devil, first time. 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 (That, playing, devil, first time), 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:pg27200:155:32 # text = "That's a bad pastime," he said; "when the devil saw the Bible for the first time he wanted to produce a caricature in opposition to it, and invented card-playing." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 pastime pastime NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 devil Devil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Bible Bible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 22 amod _ _ 22 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 produce produce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 caricature caricature NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 opposition opposition NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 invented invent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 amod _ _ 36 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | a bad pastime | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | playing | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | past | the devil | the Bible | | | time | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bible=Stimulus | | 4 | **want** *in a quote* | past | playing | the first time *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **produce** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the first time *not said here* | a caricature | devil | opposition | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caricature=Result | | 6 | **invent** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **play** *in a quote* | gerund | the devil *not said here* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/33/) - ↑ back to [Everything in the Right Place](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/155/)