--- title: An inviting place for a frolic, if it had not been for the number of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: An inviting place for a frolic, if it had not been for the number of poisonous adders of which the travellers spoke; they also mentioned that the place had formerly been infested with wolves, and that the district was still called Wolfsborg for this reason. Who acts: heather, travellers. 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C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heather, travellers), 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:pg27200:159:80 # text = An inviting place for a frolic, if it had not been for the number of poisonous adders of which the travellers spoke; they also mentioned that the place had formerly been infested with wolves, and that the district was still called Wolfsborg for this reason. 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 inviting inviting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 frolic frolic NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 if if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 12 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 cop _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 adders adder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 obl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 travellers traveller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 also also ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 mentioned mention VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 32 formerly formerly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 infested infest VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 ccomp _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 district district NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux:pass _ _ 43 still still ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 45 Wolfsborg Wolfsborg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 xcomp _ _ 46 for for ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 48 det _ _ 48 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | heather | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **is** | participle | | | | | | for the number; of poisonous adders | tree rules | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the travellers | | | | | of poisonous adders | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mention** *speech: other* | past | travellers *= traveller* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **infest** | past · perfect · passive | | the place | | | | with wolves; formerly *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with wolf=Theme | | 6 | **call** | past · passive | | the district | | | still | for this reason | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for reason=Beneficiary | 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 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/81/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/)