--- title: Here rests a young lady, of a good family, who would always make her… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Here rests a young lady, of a good family, who would always make her voice heard in society, and when she sang "Mi manca la voce,"[1] it was the only true thing she ever said in her life. Who acts: good family, voice, woman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good family, voice, woman), 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:pg27200:16:45 # text = Here rests a young lady, of a good family, who would always make her voice heard in society, and when she sang "Mi manca la voce,"[1] it was the only true thing she ever said in her life. 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 rests rest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 13 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 15 advmod _ _ 15 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 xcomp _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 society society NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 23 when when SCONJ WRB _ 25 mark _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 Mi Mi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 manca manca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 la la X FW Foreign=Yes 30 compound _ _ 30 voce voce NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 list _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 1 1 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 42 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 44 advmod _ _ 44 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rest** | present | | a young lady | | here | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lady=Theme | | 2 | **make** | would | a good family | woman's voice | | | | always *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **hear** | participle | woman's voice *not said here* | | | society | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | woman | Mi manca | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location manca=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | past | voice | the only true thing | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman | the only true thing *not said here* | | woman's life | ever | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in life=Manner | 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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/16/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/16/46/) - ↑ back to [A Cheerful Temper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/16/)