--- title: "I cannot very well describe it," said the sculptor; "but you enter… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "I cannot very well describe it," said the sculptor; "but you enter on a large open space, in the centre of which stands an obelisk, which is a thousand years old." Who acts: sculptor, you, centre, obelisk. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (sculptor, you, centre, obelisk), 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:pg27200:7:14 # text = "I cannot very well describe it," said the sculptor; "but you enter on a large open space, in the centre of which stands an obelisk, which is a thousand years old." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 7 describe describe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sculptor sculptor NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 enter enter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 obelisk obelisk NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl:unmarked _ _ 39 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **describe** *in a quote* | can | the sculptor *= sculptor* | city | | | | well *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the sculptor | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **enter** *in a quote* | present | you | | | a large open space | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stand** *in a quote* | present | the centre | a obelisk | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer obelisk=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a obelisk | | | | year | old *property* | tree rules | 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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/15/) - ↑ back to [Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/)