--- title: Not a single herdsman did we meet, not a solitary hut did we pass; e… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Not a single herdsman did we meet, not a solitary hut did we pass; everything appeared lonely and deserted--only a shooting star showed that in the heavens there was yet life. Who acts: single herdsman, solitary hut, everything, shooting star. 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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 (single herdsman, solitary hut, everything, shooting star), 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:pg27200:36:84 # text = Not a single herdsman did we meet, not a solitary hut did we pass; everything appeared lonely and deserted--only a shooting star showed that in the heavens there was yet life. 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 herdsman herdsman NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 solitary solitary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 18 nsubj _ _ 18 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 19 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 deserted desert VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 -- -- PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 only only ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 shooting shooting NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 heavens heaven NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 ccomp _ _ 32 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 33 expl _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **meet** | past · do-support | a single herdsman | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **pass** | past · do-support | a solitary hut | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **appear** | past | everything | | | | | lonely *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **desert** | participle | everything *not said here* | | | | | | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **show** | past | a shooting star | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/36/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/36/85/) - ↑ back to [The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/36/)