--- title: "The cold is delightful," said the Snow Man; "but do tell me tell me… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "The cold is delightful," said the Snow Man; "but do tell me tell me; only you must not clank your chain so; for it jars all through me when you do that." Who acts: cold, Snow Man, you, chain. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/55/) [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 Snow Man](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/) / 55 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 55 "The cold is delightful," said the Snow Man; "but do tell me tell me; only you must not clank your chain so; for it jars all through me when you do that." **Who acts:** cold, Snow Man, you, chain · **What happens:** be, say, tell, not clank, jar, do · **To what, where:** Snow Man, chain, that · **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 (cold, Snow Man, you, chain), 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:pg27200:169:55 # text = "The cold is delightful," said the Snow Man; "but do tell me tell me; only you must not clank your chain so; for it jars all through me when you do that." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 delightful delightful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Snow Snow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Man Man PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ _ 18 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 19 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 clank clank VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 26 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 30 for for SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 jars jar VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 33 all all ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 through through ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 36 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 39 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the cold | | | | | delightful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Snow Man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · do-support | | | the Snow Man *= man* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | the Snow Man *= man* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 5 | **not** **clank** *in a quote* | must | you | your chain | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chain=Theme | | 6 | **jar** *in a quote* | present | chain | | | | | through the Snow Man *= man* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **do** *in a quote* | present | you | that | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | 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 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/56/) - ↑ back to [The Snow Man](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/)