--- title: As soon as the merchant's son had come down in his flying trunk to t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as the merchant's son had come down in his flying trunk to the wood after the fireworks, he thought, "I will go back into the town now, and hear what they think of the entertainment." Who acts: son, fireworks. 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 (son, fireworks), 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:pg27200:35:98 # text = As soon as the merchant's son had come down in his flying trunk to the wood after the fireworks, he thought, "I will go back into the town now, and hear what they think of the entertainment." 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 10 down down ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 amod _ _ 14 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 after after ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 fireworks firework NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 29 back back ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 37 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 36 obj _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 entertainment entertainment NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come down** | past · perfect | the merchant's son | | | son's flying trunk to the wood after the fireworks | | down, soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in trunk=Location | | 2 | **fly** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | son | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **go back** *in a quote* | future | son | | | the town | now | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **hear** *in a quote* | infinitive | son *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | fireworks *= firework* | | | | | of the entertainment | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/99/) - ↑ back to [The Flying Trunk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/)