--- title: Quack, quack! come with me now, I will take you into grand society,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Quack, quack! come with me now, I will take you into grand society, and introduce you to the farmyard, but you must keep close to me or you may be trodden upon; and, above all, beware of the cat." Who acts: Quack, I, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quack, I, you), 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:pg27200:201:39 # text = Quack, quack! come with me now, I will take you into grand society, and introduce you to the farmyard, but you must keep close to me or you may be trodden upon; and, above all, beware of the cat." 1 Quack quack NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 quack quack NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 5 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 society society NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 introduce introduce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 farmyard farmyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 29 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 trodden tread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 conj _ _ 37 upon upon ADP IN _ 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 41 above above ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 44 beware beware VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | infinitive | Quack and quack | | | | now | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **take** | future | I | you | | grand society | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme into society=Destination | | 3 | **introduce** | infinitive | Quack and quack *not said here* | you | | | | to the farmyard | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient to farmyard=Co-Patient | | 4 | **keep** | must | you | | | | | close *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tread** | may · passive | | you | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **beware** | infinitive | Quack and quack *not said here* | | | all | | of the cat | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/40/) - ↑ back to [The Ugly Duckling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/201/)