--- title: He broke off a spray and stuck it in his hat; he determined to be me… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He broke off a spray and stuck it in his hat; he determined to be merry and light-hearted, for he was going out into the wide world--"a little way out, beyond the bay," as the young eels had said. " Who acts: sea. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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" **Who acts:** sea · **What happens:** break off, stick, determine, be, go out, say · **To what, where:** spray, hat, little way, wide world, young eels · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea), 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:pg27200:161:8 # text = He broke off a spray and stuck it in his hat; he determined to be merry and light-hearted, for he was going out into the wide world--"a little way out, beyond the bay," as the young eels had said. " 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 off off ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 spray spray NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 stuck stick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 determined determine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 cop _ _ 17 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 hearted hearted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 for for SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 27 out out ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 -- -- PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 37 out out ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 beyond beyond ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 bay bay NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 44 as as SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 eels eel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nsubj:pass _ _ 48 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 49 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break off** | past | sea | a spray | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spray=Patient | | 2 | **stick** | past | sea *not said here* | spray | | sea's hat | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hat=Destination | | 3 | **determine** | past | sea | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | sea *not said here* | | | | | merry *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | sea *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go out** | past · progressive | sea | a little way | | the wide world | | beyond the bay; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | | the young eels | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/161/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/161/9/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/161/)