--- title: The tree first recovered itself while being unpacked in the courtyar… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The tree first recovered itself while being unpacked in the courtyard of a house, with several other trees; and it heard a man say, "We only want one, and this is the prettiest." Who acts: tree, journey, man, We. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/55/) [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 Fir Tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/) / 55 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 55 The tree first recovered itself while being unpacked in the courtyard of a house, with several other trees; and it heard a man say, "We only want one, and this is the prettiest." **Who acts:** tree, journey, man, We, this · **What happens:** recover, unpack, hear, say, want, be · **To what, where:** journey, courtyard, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, journey, man, We), 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:pg27200:33:55 # text = The tree first recovered itself while being unpacked in the courtyard of a house, with several other trees; and it heard a man say, "We only want one, and this is the prettiest." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 advmod _ _ 4 recovered recover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ _ 6 while while SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 unpacked unpack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 courtyard courtyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 only only ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 32 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 prettiest pretty ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **recover** | past | the tree | journey | | | | first *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | | 2 | **unpack** | gerund · passive | the tree *not said here* | | | the courtyard of a house | | with several other trees | tree rules | | 3 | **hear** | past | journey | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **want** *in a quote* | present | We | one | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | this | | | | | pretty *property* | tree rules | 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 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/56/) - ↑ back to [The Fir Tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/)