--- title: "This shall be your pretty coffin," she said; "and by and by, when m… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "This shall be your pretty coffin," she said; "and by and by, when my cousins come to visit me, they shall help me to bury you out in the garden; so that next summer you may grow up again more beautiful than ever." Who acts: This, Ida, cousins, you. 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C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Ida, cousins, you), 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:pg27200:73:139 # text = "This shall be your pretty coffin," she said; "and by and by, when my cousins come to visit me, they shall help me to bury you out in the garden; so that next summer you may grow up again more beautiful than ever." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 coffin coffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 11 ccomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 cousins cousin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 39 so so SCONJ IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 fixed _ _ 41 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 43 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 46 up up ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ _ 47 again again ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 49 advmod _ _ 49 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 xcomp _ _ 50 than than ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | shall | This | your pretty coffin | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ida | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present | my cousins | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **visit** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | my cousins *not said here* | Ida | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent | | 5 | **help** *in a quote* | shall | cousins *= cousin* | Ida | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 6 | **bury out** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Ida *not said here* | you | | the garden | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme in garden=Destination | | 7 | **grow up** *in a quote* | may | you | | | | summer | beautiful *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/138/) - next →: [sentence 140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/140/) - ↑ back to [Little Ida's Flowers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/)