--- title: "Would you like to stay here and freeze when the winter comes?" said… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Would you like to stay here and freeze when the winter comes?" said the mother, "or till the boys comes to hang you, or to roast you?--Well then, I'll call them." Who acts: you, winter, mother, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, winter, mother, 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:pg27200:183:48 # text = "Would you like to stay here and freeze when the winter comes?" said the mother, "or till the boys comes to hang you, or to roast you?--Well then, I'll call them." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 freeze freeze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 10 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 till till ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 25 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 hang hang VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 roast roast VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ? ? PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 -- -- PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 Well well INTJ UH _ 41 discourse _ _ 37 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 parataxis _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **like** *in a quote* | would | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **stay** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | here | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **freeze** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **come** *in a quote* | present | the winter | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **come** *in a quote* | present | the mother or the boys | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **hang** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the mother or the boys *not said here* | you | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 8 | **roast** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the mother or the boys *not said here* | you | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 9 | **call** *in a quote* | future | I | boys *= boy* | | | then | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | 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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/183/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/183/49/) - ↑ back to [The Storks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/183/)