--- title: I shall be obliged to go back to the king's new market," said he, "w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: I shall be obliged to go back to the king's new market," said he, "where there are plenty of carriages standing, or I shall never reach Christian's Haven." Who acts: king, plenty, carriages, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, plenty, carriages, I), 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:pg27200:41:31 # text = I shall be obliged to go back to the king's new market," said he, "where there are plenty of carriages standing, or I shall never reach Christian's Haven." 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 obliged oblige VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 ccomp _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 back back ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 market market NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 advmod _ _ 21 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 22 expl _ _ 22 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 23 plenty plenty NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 carriages carriage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 33 Christian Christian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 Haven Haven PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **oblige** | shall · passive | | I | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | | 2 | **go back** | to-infinitive | | | | | | to the king's new market *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to market=Result | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | king | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **be** | present | plenty of carriages | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **stand** | gerund | carriages *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **reach** | shall | I | Christian's Haven | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent haven=Theme | | 7 | **market** | | the king | | | | | | nom market «act transitive»: poss=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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/41/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/41/32/) - ↑ back to [What Happened to the Counsellor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/41/)