--- title: "It is really necessary that I should mould the clay myself," he rep… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "It is really necessary that I should mould the clay myself," he replied. Who acts: Alfred. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/74/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/) / 74 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 74 "It is really necessary that I should mould the clay myself," he replied. **Who acts:** Alfred · **What happens:** be, mould, reply · **To what, where:** Alfred · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (Alfred), 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:pg27200:7:74 # text = "It is really necessary that I should mould the clay myself," he replied. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 expl _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 necessary necessary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 mould mould NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | necessary *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mould** *in a quote* | should | Alfred | Alfred | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Alfred | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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. 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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/75/) - ↑ back to [Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/)