--- title: "Only wait till my time comes," he said; "I shall do more than grow… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Only wait till my time comes," he said; "I shall do more than grow roses, bear nuts, or give milk, like the hazel-bush, the cows and the sheep." Who acts: you, time, shell, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, time, shell, I), 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:pg27200:157:2 # text = "Only wait till my time comes," he said; "I shall do more than grow roses, bear nuts, or give milk, like the hazel-bush, the cows and the sheep." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 till till SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 17 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 obj _ _ 18 than than SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 20 roses rose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 bear bear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 23 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 27 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 hazel hazel NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 bush bush NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 sheep sheep NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present | my time | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | shell | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | shall | I | more | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality | | 5 | **grow** *in a quote* | infinitive | I *not said here* | roses | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rose=Theme | | 6 | **bear** *in a quote* | present | I *not said here* | nuts | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient | | 7 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | | milk | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/157/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/157/3/) - ↑ back to [The Snail and the Rose-tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/157/)