--- title: Valais was then, as he expressed it, only a closed-up bag, quite ful… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Valais was then, as he expressed it, only a closed-up bag, quite full of sick people, miserable cretins; but the French soldiers came, and they were capital doctors, they soon killed the disease and the sick people, too. Who acts: Valais, French soldiers, soldiers. 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C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Valais, French soldiers, soldiers), 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:pg27200:54:18 # text = Valais was then, as he expressed it, only a closed-up bag, quite full of sick people, miserable cretins; but the French soldiers came, and they were capital doctors, they soon killed the disease and the sick people, too. 1 Valais Valais PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 expressed express VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 only only ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 12 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 15 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 quite quite ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 miserable miserable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 cretins cretin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 capital capital ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 40 advmod _ _ 40 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 48 too too ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Valais | | | | | then *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **express** | past | Valais | appearance | | | | a closed bag *obl* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **close up** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **come** | past | the French soldiers | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | past | soldiers *= soldier* | capital doctors | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **kill** | past | soldiers *= soldier* | the disease and the sick people | | | | soon *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/54/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/54/19/) - ↑ back to [III. the Uncle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/54/)