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title: "When you have reached your fifteenth year," said the grand-mother,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "When you have reached your fifteenth year," said the grand-mother, "you will have permission to rise up out of the sea, to sit on the rocks in the moonlight, while the great ships are sailing by; and then you will see both forests and towns." Who acts: you, grand mother, permission, great ships. A 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 31

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"When you have reached your fifteenth year," said the grand-mother, "you will have permission to rise up out of the sea, to sit on the rocks in the moonlight, while the great ships are sailing by; and then you will see both forests and towns."

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**Who acts:** you, grand mother, permission, great ships · **What happens:** reach, say, have, rise up, sit, sail · **To what, where:** permission, sea, rocks, forests · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, grand mother, permission, great ships), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:75:31
# text = "When you have reached your fifteenth year," said the grand-mother, "you will have permission to rise up out of the sea, to sit on the rocks in the moonlight, while the great ships are sailing by; and then you will see both forests and towns."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	fifteenth	fifteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	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	15	det	_	_
13	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
21	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
43	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	advcl	_	_
45	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
48	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	51	advmod	_	_
49	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
52	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc:preconj	_	_
53	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obj	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	51	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  | year |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the grand mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | future | you | permission |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rise up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | permission *not said here* |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out sea=Location |
| 5 | **sit** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | permission *not said here* |  |  | the rocks |  | in the moonlight | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location |
| 6 | **sail** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the great ships |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **see** *in a quote* | future | you | forests and towns |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer forest=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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.

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