--- title: "'Very well; I will give her to you when you bring me the young eagl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "'Very well; I will give her to you when you bring me the young eaglet alive,' said the miller; and he laughed till the tears stood in his eyes. ' Who acts: miller, you, Rudy, tears. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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' **Who acts:** miller, you, Rudy, tears · **What happens:** give, bring, say, laugh, stand · **To what, where:** Babette, young eaglet, miller, eyes · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller, you, Rudy, tears), 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:pg27200:57:64 # text = "'Very well; I will give her to you when you bring me the young eaglet alive,' said the miller; and he laughed till the tears stood in his eyes. ' 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 iobj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 eaglet eaglet NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 19 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 miller miller NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 29 till till SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** *in a quote* | future | miller | | Babette | | | to you; well *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to you=Recipient | | 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | present | you | the young eaglet | miller | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination eaglet=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | miller *not said here* | the miller | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent miller=Topic | | 4 | **laugh** *in a quote* | past | Rudy | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stand** *in a quote* | past | the tears | | | Rudy's eyes | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in eye=Location | 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. 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