--- title: Come, be a man," she added, placing her hand on his shoulder; "you a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Come, be a man," she added, placing her hand on his shoulder; "you are still a child, and you must be good and reasonable, as you were when we were both children, and played together under the willow-tree." Who acts: you, stepmother, we, children. 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C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, stepmother, we, children), 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:pg27200:203:33 # text = Come, be a man," she added, placing her hand on his shoulder; "you are still a child, and you must be good and reasonable, as you were when we were both children, and played together under the willow-tree." 1 Come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 added add VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 placing place VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 still still ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 29 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 reasonable reasonable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 1 parataxis _ _ 37 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 both both ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 44 together together ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 under under ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 47 willow willow NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 48 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | infinitive | | a man | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **add** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | stepmother | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **place** *in a quote* | gerund | stepmother *not said here* | stepmother's hand | | man's shoulder | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on shoulder=Destination | | 5 | **is a** | present | you | a child | | | still | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | must | you | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **is** | past | you | | | | | when *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **is a** | past | we | children | | | | both *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **play** | past | children *not said here* | | | the willow tree | | together *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/34/) - ↑ back to [Under the Willow-tree, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/)