--- title: "I must give them color, that they may be seen more plainly," said h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "I must give them color, that they may be seen more plainly," said he; and he poured something like a little drop of red wine into the drop of water, but it was witches' blood from the lobes of the ear, the finest kind, at ninepence a drop. Who acts: Krabble, color. 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C. Andersen, The Drop of Water. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Krabble, color), 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:pg27200:23:15 # text = "I must give them color, that they may be seen more plainly," said he; and he poured something like a little drop of red wine into the drop of water, but it was witches' blood from the lobes of the ear, the finest kind, at ninepence a drop. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 color color NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 13 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 14 advmod _ _ 14 plainly plainly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 poured pour VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 23 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 22 obj _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 drop drop NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 drop drop NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 40 witches witch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ' 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 parataxis _ _ 43 from from ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 lobes lobe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 finest fine ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 52 amod _ _ 52 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 54 at at ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 ninepence ninepence NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 56 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 drop drop NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** *in a quote* | must | Krabble | color | thousands *= thousand* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient color=Theme | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | may · passive | | thousands *= thousand* | | | | plainly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Krabble | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **pour** | past | Krabble | something | | the drop of water | | like a little drop of red wine; at ninepence a drop | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent something=Theme into drop=Destination | | 5 | **is a** | past | color | witches's blood and the finest kind | | the lobes of the ear | | | tree rules | 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/23/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/23/16/) - ↑ back to [The Drop of Water](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/23/)