--- title: You shall tell your tales, for no one over there can do it so well;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: You shall tell your tales, for no one over there can do it so well; and we will sit in the stone rooms, where the pine logs are burning, and drink mead out of the golden drinking-horn of the old Norwegian kings. Who acts: You, one, we, pine logs. 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C. 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 (You, one, we, pine logs), 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:pg27200:31:96 # text = You shall tell your tales, for no one over there can do it so well; and we will sit in the stone rooms, where the pine logs are burning, and drink mead out of the golden drinking-horn of the old Norwegian kings. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 9 det _ _ 9 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 over over ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 nmod _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 32 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 pine pine NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 logs log NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 burning burn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 36 mead mead NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 out out ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 40 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 41 drinking drinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 46 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 47 Norwegian Norwegian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | shall | You | your tales | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **do** | can | no one | tree | | | | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 3 | **sit** | future | we | | | the stone rooms | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location | | 4 | **burn** | present · progressive | the pine logs | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **drink** | infinitive | we *not said here* | mead | | the golden drinking horn of the old Norwegian kings | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mead=Patient | | 6 | **tell** | | your | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/31/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/31/97/) - ↑ back to [The Elfin Hill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/31/)