--- title: We are to go to the ants to learn wisdom, and I had got the queen. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: We are to go to the ants to learn wisdom, and I had got the queen. Who acts: We, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/180/37/) [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/) / [What the Second Mouse Had to Tell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/180/) / 37 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 37 We are to go to the ants to learn wisdom, and I had got the queen. **Who acts:** We, I · **What happens:** be, learn, get · **To what, where:** wisdom, queen This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, I), 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:pg27200:180:37 # text = We are to go to the ants to learn wisdom, and I had got the queen. 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 10 wisdom wisdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | We | | | | | to the ants; go *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **learn** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | wisdom | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Topic | | 3 | **get** | past · perfect | I | the queen | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus | 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/180/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/180/38/) - ↑ back to [What the Second Mouse Had to Tell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/180/)