--- title: "In the hour of peril when most men fear, He clasped the bride that… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "In the hour of peril when most men fear, He clasped the bride that he held so dear, And proved himself the son of a King; Of his courage and valour let us sing." Who acts: most men, Jurgen, us. 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most men, Jurgen, us), 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:pg27200:162:18 # text = "In the hour of peril when most men fear, He clasped the bride that he held so dear, And proved himself the son of a King; Of his courage and valour let us sing." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 peril peril NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 when when SCONJ WRB _ 10 mark _ _ 8 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 9 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 fear fear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 clasped clasp VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 And and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 proved prove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 24 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 23 obj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 31 Of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 valour valour NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 37 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fear** *in a quote* | present | most men | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **clasp** *in a quote* | past | Jurgen | the bride | | | hour | | tree rules | | 3 | **hold** *in a quote* | past | Jurgen | | | | | dear *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **prove** *in a quote* | past | Jurgen *not said here* | Jurgen | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme son=Attribute | | 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | Jurgen *not said here* | us | | | | of Jurgen's courage and valour | tree rules | | 6 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/162/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/162/19/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/162/)