--- title: "I heard him as he thus spoke; he was looking at a spider's web, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "I heard him as he thus spoke; he was looking at a spider's web, and he continued, 'Thou cunning little weaver, thou dost teach me perseverance. Who acts: window, Easter, Thou. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/212/121/) [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 Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/212/) / 121 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 121 "I heard him as he thus spoke; he was looking at a spider's web, and he continued, 'Thou cunning little weaver, thou dost teach me perseverance. **Who acts:** window, Easter, Thou · **What happens:** hear, speak, look, continue, weaver, do · **To what, where:** Easter, perseverance, window · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (window, Easter, Thou), 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:pg27200:212:121 # text = "I heard him as he thus spoke; he was looking at a spider's web, and he continued, 'Thou cunning little weaver, thou dost teach me perseverance. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 thus thus ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 27 nsubj _ _ 25 cunning cunning ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 weaver weaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 nsubj _ _ 30 dost do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 31 teach teach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 32 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 perseverance perseverance NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** *in a quote* | past | window | Easter | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | Easter | | | | | thus *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **look** *in a quote* | past · progressive | Easter | | | | | at a spider's web | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at web=Theme | | 4 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | Easter | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **weaver** *in a quote* | | Thou | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **do** *in a quote* | present | thou | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **teach** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | thou *not said here* | perseverance | window | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient perseverance=Topic | 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 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/212/120/) - next →: [sentence 122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/212/122/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/212/)