--- title: They knew that they were here to be exhibited, and that they had mad… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: They knew that they were here to be exhibited, and that they had made the somewhat toilsome journey hither in tubs filled with water; and they thought with dismay of the land-sickness from which they had suffered so cruelly on the railway. Who acts: eyes. 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C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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:pg27200:26:89 # text = They knew that they were here to be exhibited, and that they had made the somewhat toilsome journey hither in tubs filled with water; and they thought with dismay of the land-sickness from which they had suffered so cruelly on the railway. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 6 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 exhibited exhibit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 somewhat somewhat ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 toilsome toilsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 hither hither ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 tubs tub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 dismay dismay NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 sickness sickness NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 obl _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 suffered suffer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 36 acl:relcl _ _ 42 so so ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 cruelly cruelly ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 44 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 railway railway NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | past | eyes *= eye* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **exhibit** | past · passive | | eyes *= eye* | | here | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **make** | past · perfect | eyes *= eye* | the toilsome journey | | tubs | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product | | 4 | **fill** | participle | | tubs *not said here* | | | | with water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | eyes *= eye* | | | | | with dismay of the land sickness | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **suffer** | past · perfect | eyes *= eye* | | | the land sickness | | on the railway; cruelly *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **dismay** | | | the land sickness | | | | | nom dismay «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/26/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/26/90/) - ↑ back to [The Dryad, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/26/)