--- title: "Faith realises it, and the priests tell us so," replied her husband… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Faith realises it, and the priests tell us so," replied her husband; "but amid all my happiness I feel that it is arrogant to demand a continuation of it--another life after this. Who acts: Faith, priests, husband, young wife. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Faith, priests, husband, young wife), 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:pg27200:158:20 # text = "Faith realises it, and the priests tell us so," replied her husband; "but amid all my happiness I feel that it is arrogant to demand a continuation of it--another life after this. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Faith faith NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 realises realise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 iobj _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 amid amid NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 21 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 23 det:predet _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 happiness happiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 arrogant arrogant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 demand demand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 csubj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 continuation continuation NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 -- -- PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 38 det _ _ 38 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 39 after after ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **realise** *in a quote* | present | Faith | existence | | | | amid *obl* | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | the priests | | us | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Faith's husband | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | the young wife *= wife* | my happiness *not said here* | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Theme | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | it | | | | | arrogant *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **demand** *speech: request* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | a continuation of existence and another life | | | after this | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme continuation=Precondition | | 7 | **continue** *in a quote* | | | existence | | | after this | | nom continuation «act transitive»: of=patient after=obl | 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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/21/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/)