--- title: "Yes, but I do," said the mother; "I should like to be taken to the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Yes, but I do," said the mother; "I should like to be taken to the palace, and boiled, and laid upon a silver dish, as was done to all our ancestors; and you may be sure it must be something very uncommon." Who acts: mother, you, dish. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, you, dish), 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:pg27200:48:25 # text = "Yes, but I do," said the mother; "I should like to be taken to the palace, and boiled, and laid upon a silver dish, as was done to all our ancestors; and you may be sure it must be something very uncommon." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 xcomp _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 boiled boil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 29 upon upon ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 conj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 40 det:predet _ _ 39 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 ancestors ancestor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ; ; PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 43 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 44 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 45 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 46 cop _ _ 46 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 48 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 49 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 50 cop _ _ 50 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 46 ccomp _ _ 51 very very ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 52 uncommon uncommon ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** *in a quote* | present | the mother *= mother* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the mother | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **like** *in a quote* | should | the mother *= mother* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **take** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | the mother *= mother* *not said here* | | | | | to the palace *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: to palace=Result | | 5 | **boil** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **lay** *in a quote* | participle | | | | a silver dish | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon dish=Destination | | 7 | **do** *in a quote* | past · passive | | | | | | to our ancestors | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | may | you | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **is a** *in a quote* | must | dish | something | | | | | tree rules | 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/48/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/48/26/) - ↑ back to [The Happy Family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/48/)