--- title: His son inherited his wealth, and he lived a merry life with it; he… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: His son inherited his wealth, and he lived a merry life with it; he went to a masquerade every night, made kites out of five pound notes, and threw pieces of gold into the sea instead of stones, making ducks and drakes of them. Who acts: son, merchant. 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C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, merchant), 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:pg27200:35:4 # text = His son inherited his wealth, and he lived a merry life with it; he went to a masquerade every night, made kites out of five pound notes, and threw pieces of gold into the sea instead of stones, making ducks and drakes of them. 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 inherited inherit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 wealth wealth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 masquerade masquerade NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 22 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 kites kite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 out out ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 29 pound pound NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 34 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 into into ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 40 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 42 case _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 40 fixed _ _ 42 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 45 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 drakes drake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 conj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **inherit** | past | merchant's son | merchant's wealth | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme | | 2 | **live** | past | merchant | a merry life | | | | with life | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | | 3 | **go** | past | merchant | | | a masquerade | night | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to masquerade=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **make** | past | merchant's son *not said here* | kites | | five pound notes | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset kite=Product | | 5 | **throw** | past | | pieces of gold | | | | into the sea *result*; instead stones | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer piece=Theme into sea=Result | | 6 | **make** | gerund | | ducks and drakes of drakes | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset duck=Product | 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/pg27200/35/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/5/) - ↑ back to [The Flying Trunk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/)