--- title: But she repeated the words of the song, "I will drive them across th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: But she repeated the words of the song, "I will drive them across the islands to the deep sea; but before evening came the roebuck was slain, and before the night the hunted stag was dead." Who acts: mother, roebuck, hunted stag. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, roebuck, hunted stag), 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:pg27200:36:21 # text = But she repeated the words of the song, "I will drive them across the islands to the deep sea; but before evening came the roebuck was slain, and before the night the hunted stag was dead." 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 repeated repeat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 across across ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 before before ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 26 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 roebuck roebuck NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 slain slain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 33 before before ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 hunted hunt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 amod _ _ 38 stag stag NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **repeat** | past | mother | the words of the song | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | | 2 | **drive** *in a quote* | future | my mother *= mother* | words *= word* | | the islands | | to the deep sea | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme across island=Destination to sea=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | past | mother *not said here* | | | | evening | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the roebuck | | | | | slain *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **hunt** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the hunted stag | | | | night | dead *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **word** | | | the song | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/36/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/36/22/) - ↑ back to [The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/36/)