--- title: "I know very well where she is," sighed the top; "she is in the swal… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "I know very well where she is," sighed the top; "she is in the swallow's nest, and has married the swallow." Who acts: top, bird. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball, 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/pg27200/195/25/) [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/) / [The Top and Ball](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/195/) / 25 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 25 "I know very well where she is," sighed the top; "she is in the swallow's nest, and has married the swallow." **Who acts:** top, bird · **What happens:** know, be, sigh, marry · **To what, where:** top, nest, swallow · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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 (top, bird), 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:pg27200:195:25 # text = "I know very well where she is," sighed the top; "she is in the swallow's nest, and has married the swallow." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 sighed sigh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 swallow swallow NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 swallow swallow NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present | top | | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | bird | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sigh** | past | | the top | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent top=Topic | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | bird | | | the swallow's nest | | | tree rules | | 5 | **marry** *in a quote* | present · perfect | | the swallow | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swallow=Patient | 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/195/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/195/26/) - ↑ back to [The Top and Ball](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/195/)