--- title: At first Ib said not a word, but he became as white as the wall, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: At first Ib said not a word, but he became as white as the wall, and shook his head gently, and then he spoke,--"Christina must not refuse this good fortune." Who acts: Ib, Christina. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ib, Christina), 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:pg27200:51:127 # text = At first Ib said not a word, but he became as white as the wall, and shook his head gently, and then he spoke,--"Christina must not refuse this good fortune." 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 obl _ _ 3 Ib Ib PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 as as ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 gently gently ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 -- -- PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 Christina Christina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 refuse refuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 35 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 det _ _ 36 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ib | a word | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **become** | past | Ib | | | | | white *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **shake** | past | Ib *not said here* | Ib's head | | | | gently *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Ib | | | | then | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **refuse** *in a quote* | must | Christina | this good fortune | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | 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 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/126/) - next →: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/128/) - ↑ back to [Ib and Little Christina](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/)