--- title: A whipping top and a little ball lay together in a box, among other… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: A whipping top and a little ball lay together in a box, among other toys, and the top said to the ball, "Shall we be married, as we live in the same box?" Who acts: whipping top, top, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whipping top, top, we), 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:pg27200:195:1 # text = A whipping top and a little ball lay together in a box, among other toys, and the top said to the ball, "Shall we be married, as we live in the same box?" 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 whipping whipping ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 8 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 together together ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 among among ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 toys toy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 Shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 as as SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ? ? PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | present | a whipping top and a little ball | | | a box and other toys | | together *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in box=Destination | | 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the top | | the ball | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ball=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **marry** *in a quote* | shall · passive | | we | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **live** *in a quote* | present | we | | | the same box | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in box=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: [The Toad, 181](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/194/181/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/195/2/) - ↑ back to [The Top and Ball](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/195/)