--- title: It is a wonderful thing to leave your own little corner at home, to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: It is a wonderful thing to leave your own little corner at home, to hide yourself in a ship where there are sure to be some nice snug corners for shelter, then suddenly to find yourself thousands of miles away in a foreign land. Who acts: ship. 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C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship), 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:pg27200:179:8 # text = It is a wonderful thing to leave your own little corner at home, to hide yourself in a ship where there are sure to be some nice snug corners for shelter, then suddenly to find yourself thousands of miles away in a foreign land. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 9 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 17 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 16 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 24 advmod _ _ 22 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 24 expl _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 28 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 snug snug NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 corners corner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 ccomp _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 shelter shelter NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ _ 35 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 38 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 37 obj _ _ 39 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 42 away away ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 foreign foreign ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | ship | a wonderful thing | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | | your own little corner | | home | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent corner=Theme at home=Location | | 3 | **hide** | to-infinitive | | yourself | | a ship | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient in ship=Location | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | there | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | some nice snug corners | | | | for shelter | tree rules | | 6 | **find** | to-infinitive | | yourself | | | then | away, suddenly *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme thousand=Attribute | 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/9/) - ↑ back to [What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/179/)