--- title: "Away, away!" barked the yard-dog; "I'll tell you; they said I was a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Away, away!" barked the yard-dog; "I'll tell you; they said I was a pretty little fellow once; then I used to lie in a velvet-covered chair, up at the master's house, and sit in the mistress's lap. Who acts: people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/56/) [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/) / 56 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 56 "Away, away!" barked the yard-dog; "I'll tell you; they said I was a pretty little fellow once; then I used to lie in a velvet-covered chair, up at the master's house, and sit in the mistress's lap. **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** bark, tell, say, be, use, lie · **To what, where:** yard dog, you, pretty little fellow, house, covered chair, lap · **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 (people), 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:pg27200:169:56 # text = "Away, away!" barked the yard-dog; "I'll tell you; they said I was a pretty little fellow once; then I used to lie in a velvet-covered chair, up at the master's house, and sit in the mistress's lap. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Away away ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 away away ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 7 barked bark VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 ccomp _ _ 27 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 29 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 36 velvet velvet NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 amod _ _ 39 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 41 up up ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 42 at at ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 45 's 's PART POS _ 44 case _ _ 46 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 50 in in ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 mistress mistress NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 53 's 's PART POS _ 52 case _ _ 54 lap lap NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bark** | past | | the yard dog | | | | away *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | people | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | people | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | people | a pretty little fellow | | | | once *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **use** *in a quote* | past | people | | | the master's house | then | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **lie** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | a covered chair | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location | | 7 | **cover** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **sit** *in a quote* | present | people *not said here* | | | the mistress's lap | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lap=Location | 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 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/57/) - ↑ back to [The Snow Man](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/169/)