--- title: "I will hope that I may keep my old thoughts, the father in the mill… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "I will hope that I may keep my old thoughts, the father in the mill, and the mother, great ones and little ones--the family; for I call them all, great and little, the company of thoughts, because I must, and cannot refrain from it. Who acts: youngest, my. 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C. Andersen, The Windmill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, my), 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:pg27200:213:31 # text = "I will hope that I may keep my old thoughts, the father in the mill, and the mother, great ones and little ones--the family; for I call them all, great and little, the company of thoughts, because I must, and cannot refrain from it. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 hope hope VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 9 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 mill mill NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 -- -- PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 32 for for SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 35 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 because because SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 48 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 52 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 53 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 54 advmod _ _ 54 refrain refrain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 55 from from ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hope** *in a quote* | future | the youngest *= young* | the mother and great ones and little ones and the family | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **keep** *in a quote* | may | the youngest *= young* | my old thoughts and the father | | the mill | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thought=Theme in mill=Location | | 3 | **call** *in a quote* | present | the youngest *= young* | thoughts *= thought* | | | | the company of thoughts *obl*; great *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **refrain** *in a quote* | can | the youngest *= young* *not said here* | | | company | | | vn refrain-69 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent from it=Eventuality | | 5 | **think** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom thought «cognition 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/32/) - ↑ back to [The Windmill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/213/)