--- title: Ah! well," he thought, "who knows? perhaps I may fall down too, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Ah! well," he thought, "who knows? perhaps I may fall down too, and marry a princess;" and he looked forward joyfully to the next evening, expecting to be again decked out with lights and playthings, gold and fruit. " Who acts: Dumpty, I. 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" **Who acts:** Dumpty, I · **What happens:** think, know, fall down, marry, look, expect · **To what, where:** princess · **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 (Dumpty, I), 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:pg27200:33:93 # text = Ah! well," he thought, "who knows? perhaps I may fall down too, and marry a princess;" and he looked forward joyfully to the next evening, expecting to be again decked out with lights and playthings, gold and fruit. " 1 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 3 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 13 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 17 down down ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 too too ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 29 forward forward ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 joyfully joyfully ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 expecting expect VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 aux:pass _ _ 39 again again ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 decked deck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 ccomp _ _ 41 out out ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 playthings plaything NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | Dumpty | | | | | well *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **know** | present | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **fall down** | may | I | | | | | perhaps *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **marry** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a princess | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | | 5 | **look** *in a quote* | past | Dumpty | | | | evening | forward *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **expect** *in a quote* | gerund | Dumpty *not said here* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **deck out** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | Dumpty *not said here* | | | | again | with lights and playthings and gold and fruit | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with light=Theme | 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 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/92/) - next →: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/94/) - ↑ back to [The Fir Tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/)