--- title: It was on the third day, there came marching cheerfully along to the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: It was on the third day, there came marching cheerfully along to the palace a little personage, without horses or carriage, his eyes sparkling like yours; he had beautiful long hair, but his clothes were very poor." Who acts: bit, eyes, Kay, clothes. 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C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bit, eyes, Kay, clothes), 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:pg27200:173:41 # text = It was on the third day, there came marching cheerfully along to the palace a little personage, without horses or carriage, his eyes sparkling like yours; he had beautiful long hair, but his clothes were very poor." 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 amod _ _ 6 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 9 expl _ _ 9 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 10 marching march VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ _ 11 cheerfully cheerfully ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 along along ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 personage personage NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 without without ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 carriage carriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 27 sparkling sparkle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 28 like like ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 33 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 42 nsubj _ _ 40 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 very very ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | bit | | | | on the third day | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | past | | | | there | | | tree rules | | 3 | **march** | gerund | | a little personage | | | | to the palace *result*; without horses or carriage and Kay's eyes; along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result | | 4 | **sparkle** | gerund | Kay's eyes *not said here* | | | | | like yours | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** | past | Kay | beautiful long hair | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | | 6 | **is** | past | Kay's clothes | | | | | poor *property* | tree rules | 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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/42/) - ↑ back to [The Prince and Princess](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/)