--- title: "I spoke about it to an earth-worm of my acquaintance," said a third… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "I spoke about it to an earth-worm of my acquaintance," said a third lizard; "the earth-worm had just come from the elfin hill, where he has been groping about in the earth day and night. Who acts: third lizard, earth worm, worm, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third lizard, earth worm, worm, 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:pg27200:31:4 # text = "I spoke about it to an earth-worm of my acquaintance," said a third lizard; "the earth-worm had just come from the elfin hill, where he has been groping about in the earth day and night. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 worm worm NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 acquaintance acquaintance NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 19 amod _ _ 19 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 worm worm NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 just just ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 elfin elfin NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 38 advmod _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 38 aux _ _ 38 groping grope VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 acl _ _ 39 about about ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | a third lizard *= lizard* | | | | | about hill; to a earth worm of my acquaintance | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic to worm=Co-Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a third lizard | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | past · perfect | the earth worm | | | the elfin hill | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from hill=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **grope** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | worm | | | | day | | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **acquaint** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom acquaintance «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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/31/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/31/5/) - ↑ back to [The Elfin Hill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/31/)