--- title: "Do not touch the flower," exclaimed the old woman; "but place yours… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Do not touch the flower," exclaimed the old woman; "but place yourself here; and when Death comes--I expect him every minute--do not let him pull up that plant, but threaten him that if he does you will serve the other flowers in the same manner. Who acts: you, old woman, Death, beating. 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C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old woman, Death, beating), 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:pg27200:185:68 # text = "Do not touch the flower," exclaimed the old woman; "but place yourself here; and when Death comes--I expect him every minute--do not let him pull up that plant, but threaten him that if he does you will serve the other flowers in the same manner. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 touch touch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 17 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 16 nmod _ _ 18 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 22 Death Death PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 -- -- PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 expect expect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 29 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 30 -- -- PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 38 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 threaten threaten VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 that that SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 44 if if SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 47 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 48 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 49 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 advcl _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obj _ _ 53 in in ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 55 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **touch** *in a quote* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | the flower | | here | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flower=Co-Theme | | 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the old woman | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Death | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **expect** *in a quote* | present | beating | flower | | | minute | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **not** **let** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | flower | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **pull up** *in a quote* | infinitive | flower *not said here* | that plant | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme | | 7 | **threaten** *in a quote* | infinitive | | flower | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | | 8 | **serve** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | the other flowers | | the same manner | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent flower=Value in manner=Location | 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 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/185/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/185/69/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Mother](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/185/)