--- title: He was gentle as a child as long as the sullen mood did not come ove… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He was gentle as a child as long as the sullen mood did not come over him; but when it came he was fierce, became as strong as a giant, and ran about in the wood like a chased deer. Who acts: student, sullen mood, mood. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (student, sullen mood, mood), 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:pg27200:29:10 # text = He was gentle as a child as long as the sullen mood did not come over him; but when it came he was fierce, became as strong as a giant, and ran about in the wood like a chased deer. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 as as ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 sullen sullen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 mood mood NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 16 over over ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 27 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 28 as as ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 36 about about ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 like like ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 chased chase VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 amod _ _ 43 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | student | | | | | as a child; gentle *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **come** | past · do-support | the sullen mood | | | | | over student | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over he=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **come** | past | mood | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | student | | | | | fierce *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **become** | past | | | | | | strong *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **run about** | past | | | | the wood like a chased deer | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Trajectory | | 7 | **chase** | participle | | | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/29/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/29/11/) - ↑ back to [The Dumb Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/29/)