--- title: "Ah, yes, no doubt," said the fern, "but you do not know the world y… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Ah, yes, no doubt," said the fern, "but you do not know the world yet as well as I do, for my sticks are knotty;" and then it sung quite mournfully-- Who acts: doubt, you, sticks. 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 (doubt, you, sticks), 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:pg27200:34:7 # text = "Ah, yes, no doubt," said the fern, "but you do not know the world yet as well as I do, for my sticks are knotty;" and then it sung quite mournfully-- 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 10 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 doubt doubt NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fern fern NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 yet yet ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 23 as as ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 19 advmod _ _ 24 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 fixed _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 for for SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 knotty knotty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 37 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 41 advmod _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 sung sung ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 40 quite quite ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 mournfully mournfully ADV RB _ 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 -- -- PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | no doubt | the fern | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fern=Topic | | 2 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | the world | | | yet | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | present | no doubt *= doubt* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | my sticks | | | | | knotty *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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/34/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/34/8/) - ↑ back to [The Flax](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/34/)