--- title: But she shook her head, and begged him, by looks and gestures, not t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: But she shook her head, and begged him, by looks and gestures, not to stay; for in this night she knew she must finish her task, otherwise all her pain and tears and sleepless nights would have been suffered in vain. Who acts: Eliza, pain. 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C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eliza, pain), 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:pg27200:210:17 # text = But she shook her head, and begged him, by looks and gestures, not to stay; for in this night she knew she must finish her task, otherwise all her pain and tears and sleepless nights would have been suffered in vain. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 looks look NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 gestures gesture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 stay stay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 task task NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 otherwise otherwise ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 sleepless sleepless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ _ 41 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 42 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 44 aux _ _ 43 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 44 aux:pass _ _ 44 suffered suffer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl:relcl _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shake** | past | Eliza | Eliza's head | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Eliza *not said here* | | king | | | by looks and gestures | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 3 | **not** **stay** | to-infinitive | Eliza *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **know** | past | Eliza | this night *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer night=Stimulus | | 5 | **finish** | must | Eliza | Eliza's task | | | night | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector task=Eventuality | | 6 | **suffer** | would · perfect · passive | Eliza's pain *not said here* | tears and sleepless nights | | vain | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 7 | **task** | | Eliza | | | | | | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **pain** | | Eliza | | | | | | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/210/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/210/18/) - ↑ back to [The Wild Swans, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/210/)