--- title: Yes," he said, "it is all very well to say 'pack up,'" but he had no… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Yes," he said, "it is all very well to say 'pack up,'" but he had nothing left to pack up, therefore he seated himself in the trunk. Who acts: merchant, trunk. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (merchant, trunk), 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:pg27200:35:8 # text = Yes," he said, "it is all very well to say 'pack up,'" but he had nothing left to pack up, therefore he seated himself in the trunk. 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 all all ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 15 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 pack pack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 24 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 23 obj _ _ 25 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 pack pack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 seated seat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 33 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 32 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | merchant | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | trunk | | | | | all, well *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **pack up** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | past | merchant | nothing | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | | 6 | **leave** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **pack up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **seat** *in a quote* | past | merchant | merchant | | the trunk | | therefore *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Value in trunk=Location | 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/9/) - ↑ back to [The Flying Trunk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/)