--- title: And we who are telling this story stood upon a balcony, and looked d… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: And we who are telling this story stood upon a balcony, and looked down upon the green spring sight that had been brought in from the fresh country air, and said, what the old clergyman would have said, "Poor Dryad!" Who acts: we, story. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/38/) [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 Dryad, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/) / 38 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 38 And we who are telling this story stood upon a balcony, and looked down upon the green spring sight that had been brought in from the fresh country air, and said, what the old clergyman would have said, "Poor Dryad!" **Who acts:** we, story · **What happens:** tell, stand, look down, bring in, say · **To what, where:** balcony, green spring sight, fresh country air, old clergyman · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, story), 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:pg27200:25:38 # text = And we who are telling this story stood upon a balcony, and looked down upon the green spring sight that had been brought in from the fresh country air, and said, what the old clergyman would have said, "Poor Dryad!" 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 6 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 7 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 upon upon ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 balcony balcony NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 down down ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 upon upon ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 in in ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 35 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 41 obj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 clergyman clergyman NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux _ _ 41 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 Poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 Dryad Dryad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ! ! PUNCT . _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | we | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stand** | past | this story | | | a balcony | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon balcony=Location | | 3 | **look down** | past | this story *not said here* | | | | | upon the green spring sight; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon sight=Theme | | 4 | **bring in** | past · perfect · passive | | the green spring sight | | the fresh country air | | | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | this story *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | would · perfect · passive | | the old clergyman | | | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Manner | 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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/39/) - ↑ back to [The Dryad, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/)