--- title: "I sing so," he said, "that sixteen native crickets who have chirped… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "I sing so," he said, "that sixteen native crickets who have chirped from their youth up, and have never yet had a card house of their own, would become thinner than they are with envy if they were to hear me." Who acts: figure, crickets. 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C. Andersen, The Jumper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (figure, crickets), 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:pg27200:68:10 # text = "I sing so," he said, "that sixteen native crickets who have chirped from their youth up, and have never yet had a card house of their own, would become thinner than they are with envy if they were to hear me." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sing sing VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 sixteen sixteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 13 native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 crickets cricket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 16 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 chirped chirp VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 25 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 26 yet yet ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 37 thinner thin ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 xcomp _ _ 38 than than ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 envy envy NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 43 if if SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 44 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 45 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ _ 48 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | present | figure | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | figure | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **chirp up** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | that | | crickets's youth | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | present | figure *not said here* | a card house of crickets's own | | | yet | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | | 5 | **become** *in a quote* | would | figure *not said here* | | | | | thin *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | crickets *= cricket* | | | | | than envy | tree rules | | 7 | **hear** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | crickets *= cricket* | figure | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | 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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