--- title: "Yes, then you must know it; and you must know also that the girl sa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Yes, then you must know it; and you must know also that the girl sank into the earth directly, to the Moor-woman, just as Old Bogey's grandmother was paying her morning visit to inspect the brewery. Who acts: you, girl, grandmother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, girl, grandmother), 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:pg27200:211:137 # text = "Yes, then you must know it; and you must know also that the girl sank into the earth directly, to the Moor-woman, just as Old Bogey's grandmother was paying her morning visit to inspect the brewery. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 14 also also ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 sank sink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 directly directly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 Moor moor NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 30 just just ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 32 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 Bogey Bogey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 inspect inspect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 brewery brewery NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** *in a quote* | must | you | history | | | then | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 2 | **know** *in a quote* | must | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **sink** *in a quote* | past | the girl | | | the earth | | to the Moor woman; directly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **pay** *in a quote* | past · progressive | Old Bogey's grandmother | grandmother's morning visit | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset | | 5 | **inspect** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Old Bogey's grandmother *not said here* | the brewery | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brewery=Theme | | 6 | **visit** *in a quote* | | grandmother | | | | | | nom visit «act 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 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/136/) - next →: [sentence 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/138/) - ↑ back to [The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/)