--- title: "I shall be obliged to propose to the hair-brush," thought the shirt… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "I shall be obliged to propose to the hair-brush," thought the shirt collar; so he remarked one day, "It is wonderful what beautiful hair you have, my little lady. Who acts: shirt collar, collar, estate, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/168/33/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Shirt-collar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/168/) / 33 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 33 "I shall be obliged to propose to the hair-brush," thought the shirt collar; so he remarked one day, "It is wonderful what beautiful hair you have, my little lady. **Who acts:** shirt collar, collar, estate, you · **What happens:** oblige, propose, think, remark, be, have · **To what, where:** shirt collar, hair brush, little lady, beautiful hair · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shirt collar, collar, estate, you), 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:pg27200:168:33 # text = "I shall be obliged to propose to the hair-brush," thought the shirt collar; so he remarked one day, "It is wonderful what beautiful hair you have, my little lady. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 obliged oblige VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 propose propose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 brush brush NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 15 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 shirt shirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 collar collar NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 remarked remark VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 30 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 29 obj _ _ 31 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **oblige** *in a quote* | shall · passive | | the shirt collar *= collar* | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | | 2 | **propose** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | the hair brush | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brush=Recipient | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the shirt collar | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **remark** *speech: assert* | past | collar | my little lady | | | day | | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | estate | | | | | wonderful *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | beautiful hair | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | 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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/168/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/168/34/) - ↑ back to [The Shirt-collar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/168/)