--- title: What you see yonder is the moon, and the one before it was the sun.… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: What you see yonder is the moon, and the one before it was the sun. It will come again to-morrow, and most likely teach you to run down into the ditch by the well; for I think the weather is going to change. Who acts: you, moon, one, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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It will come again to-morrow, and most likely teach you to run down into the ditch by the well; for I think the weather is going to change. **Who acts:** you, moon, one, I, weather · **What happens:** see, be, come, teach, run down, think · **To what, where:** moon, morrow, you, ditch · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, moon, one, I), 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:pg27200:169:24 # text = What you see yonder is the moon, and the one before it was the sun. It will come again to-morrow, and most likely teach you to run down into the ditch by the well; for I think the weather is going to change. 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 obj _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 yonder yonder ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 12 before before ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sun. sun. NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 17 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 20 again again ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 27 advmod _ _ 27 likely likely ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 teach teach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 32 down down ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 ditch ditch NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 well well NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 40 for for SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 45 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 ccomp _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | present | | the moon | | | | yonder *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | moon | | | | before the sun. | | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | future | the one | | | morrow | again | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | you *not said here* | | you | | | likely *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **run down** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | into the ditch *result*; by the well | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into ditch=Result | | 7 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **go** | present · progressive | the weather | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **change** | to-infinitive | the weather *not said here* | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/25/) - ↑ back to [The Snow Man](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/)