--- title: They wished very much to be queen, but they did not want to take the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: They wished very much to be queen, but they did not want to take the trouble of going out into the world to learn how to make soup, which was absolutely necessary to be done first. Who acts: people, trouble, soup. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, trouble, soup), 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:pg27200:178:16 # text = They wished very much to be queen, but they did not want to take the trouble of going out into the world to learn how to make soup, which was absolutely necessary to be done first. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 7 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 of of SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 acl _ _ 20 out out ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 26 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 29 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 absolutely absolutely ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 necessary necessary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 advcl _ _ 38 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wish** | past | people | much | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | queen | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | people | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | the trouble | | the world | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme into world=Destination | | 5 | **go out** | gerund | the trouble *not said here* | | | | | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **learn** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **make** | to-infinitive | | soup | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soup=Product | | 8 | **is** | past | soup | | | | | absolutely, necessary *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **do** | to-infinitive · passive | soup *not said here* | | | | | first *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/178/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/178/17/) - ↑ back to [Soup From a Sausage Skewer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/178/)