--- title: "It is difficult to follow you; but I go hobbling along after you wi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "It is difficult to follow you; but I go hobbling along after you with my thoughts, though what you say makes my head whirl round and round. Who acts: smile, you, head, my. 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 (smile, you, head, my), 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:pg27200:7:79 # text = "It is difficult to follow you; but I go hobbling along after you with my thoughts, though what you say makes my head whirl round and round. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 expl _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 difficult difficult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 csubj _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 12 hobbling hobble VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 xcomp _ _ 13 along along ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 after after ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 though though SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 24 nsubj _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 whirl whirl VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 28 round round ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 round round ADV RB _ 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | difficult *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **follow** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | you | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present | smile | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **hobble** *in a quote* | gerund | smile *not said here* | | | | after you | with my thoughts; along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **make** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **whirl** *in a quote* | present | my head | | | | | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **think** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom thought «cognition transitive»: 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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