--- title: But do not cry, we will manage to get you in; my sweetheart knows a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: But do not cry, we will manage to get you in; my sweetheart knows a little back-staircase that leads to the sleeping apartments, and she knows where to find the key." Who acts: you, we, sweetheart, little back staircase. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The P --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/71/) [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 Prince and Princess](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/) / 71 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 71 But do not cry, we will manage to get you in; my sweetheart knows a little back-staircase that leads to the sleeping apartments, and she knows where to find the key." **Who acts:** you, we, sweetheart, little back staircase, plenty · **What happens:** not cry, manage, get in, know, lead, find · **To what, where:** you, little back staircase, key · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (you, we, sweetheart, little back staircase), 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:pg27200:173:71 # text = But do not cry, we will manage to get you in; my sweetheart knows a little back-staircase that leads to the sleeping apartments, and she knows where to find the key." 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 cry cry VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 manage manage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 sweetheart sweetheart NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 staircase staircase NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 leads lead VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 sleeping sleeping ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 apartments apartment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 32 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 34 advmod _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 key key NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **cry** *speech: express* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **manage** | future | we | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **get in** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | you | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 4 | **know** | present | my sweetheart | a little back staircase | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer staircase=Stimulus | | 5 | **lead** | present | a little back staircase | | | | | to the sleeping apartments | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to apartment=Patient | | 6 | **know** | present | plenty | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **find** | to-infinitive | | the key | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Topic | 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 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/72/) - ↑ back to [The Prince and Princess](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/173/)