--- title: "The beggar there," said her husband, "has joys of his own which see… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "The beggar there," said her husband, "has joys of his own which seem to him great, and cause him as much pleasure as a king would find in the magnificence of his palace. Who acts: beggar, joys, king. 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 (beggar, joys, king), 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:pg27200:158:25 # text = "The beggar there," said her husband, "has joys of his own which seem to him great, and cause him as much pleasure as a king would find in the magnificence of his palace. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 beggar beggar NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 13 joys joy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 nmod _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 as as ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 29 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 magnificence magnificence NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the beggar | many's husband | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | | joys of beggar's own | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Patient | | 3 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | joys of beggar's own | | beggar | | | great *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **cause** *in a quote* | infinitive | | beggar | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer he=Theme pleasure=Eventuality | | 5 | **find** *in a quote* | would | a king | | | the magnificence of king's palace | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/26/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/)