--- title: You came to teach the sculptor that his work is but dust and clay on… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: You came to teach the sculptor that his work is but dust and clay only, an outward form made of a material that decays, and that what we should seek to obtain is the ethereal essence of mind and spirit. Who acts: You, material, we, work. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, material, we, work), 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:pg27200:7:128 # text = You came to teach the sculptor that his work is but dust and clay only, an outward form made of a material that decays, and that what we should seek to obtain is the ethereal essence of mind and spirit. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 teach teach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sculptor sculptor NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 outward outward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 20 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 material material NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 decays decay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 32 obj _ _ 30 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 obtain obtain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 ethereal ethereal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 essence essence NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | You | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | the sculptor | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sculptor=Recipient | | 3 | **make** | participle | | a outward form *not said here* | | | | of a material | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **decay** | present | a material | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **seek** | should | we | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **obtain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 7 | **is a** | present | sculptor's work but dust and clay and a outward form | the ethereal essence | | | | of mind and spirit | tree rules | | 8 | **work** | | sculptor | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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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