--- title: "Wanting!" cried the guardian angel; "nothing must be wanting here;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Wanting!" cried the guardian angel; "nothing must be wanting here; and if it is so, let us fetch it; let us seek the powerful fairy; let us go to her." Who acts: guardian angel, nothing, voice, us. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guardian angel, nothing, voice, us), 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:pg27200:70:10 # text = "Wanting!" cried the guardian angel; "nothing must be wanting here; and if it is so, let us fetch it; let us seek the powerful fairy; let us go to her." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Wanting want VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 guardian guardian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 angel angel NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 14 nsubj _ _ 12 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux _ _ 14 wanting want VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 15 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 23 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 24 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 fetch fetch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 35 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 36 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the guardian angel | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **want** *in a quote* | must · progressive | nothing | | | here | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **be** *in a quote* | present | voice | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | us | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **fetch** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | voice | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 7 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | us | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **seek** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | the powerful fairy | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme | | 9 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | us | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | | fairy | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial\_Location | 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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/70/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/70/11/) - ↑ back to [The Last Pearl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/70/)