--- title: If you are as good as you are beautiful, I will dress you in silk an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: If you are as good as you are beautiful, I will dress you in silk and velvet, I will place a golden crown upon your head, and you shall dwell, and rule, and make your home in my richest castle." Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/209/85/) [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 Wild Swans, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/209/) / 85 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 85 If you are as good as you are beautiful, I will dress you in silk and velvet, I will place a golden crown upon your head, and you shall dwell, and rule, and make your home in my richest castle." **Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** be, dress, place, dwell, make · **To what, where:** you, silk, rule, home, richest castle This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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, I), 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:pg27200:209:85 # text = If you are as good as you are beautiful, I will dress you in silk and velvet, I will place a golden crown upon your head, and you shall dwell, and rule, and make your home in my richest castle." 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 as as ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 advcl _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 dress dress VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 velvet velvet NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 26 upon upon ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 dwell dwell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 40 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 44 richest rich ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 45 amod _ _ 45 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | you | | | | | beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **dress** | future | I | you | | silk and velvet | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 4 | **place** | future | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **dwell** | shall | you | rule | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme rule=Location | | 6 | **make** | infinitive | | your home | | my richest castle | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset home=Product | 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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/209/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/209/86/) - ↑ back to [The Wild Swans, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/209/)