--- title: Your fish's tail, which amongst us is considered so beautiful, is th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Your fish's tail, which amongst us is considered so beautiful, is thought on earth to be quite ugly; they do not know any better, and they think it necessary to have two stout props, which they call legs, in order to be handsome." Who acts: souls. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Anderse --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/76/64/) [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/) / [The Little Mermaid, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/76/) / 64 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 64 Your fish's tail, which amongst us is considered so beautiful, is thought on earth to be quite ugly; they do not know any better, and they think it necessary to have two stout props, which they call legs, in order to be handsome." **Who acts:** souls · **What happens:** consider, think, be, not know, have, call · **To what, where:** tail, earth, order, two stout props · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (souls), 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:pg27200:76:64 # text = Your fish's tail, which amongst us is considered so beautiful, is thought on earth to be quite ugly; they do not know any better, and they think it necessary to have two stout props, which they call legs, in order to be handsome." 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 amongst amongst ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 considered consider VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl:relcl _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 20 quite quite ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 parataxis _ _ 27 any any ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 necessary necessary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ _ 37 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 38 stout stout ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 props prop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 obj _ _ 42 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 44 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 49 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 50 cop _ _ 50 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **consider** | present · passive | | Your fish's tail | | | | beautiful *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive | | Your fish's tail | | earth | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | ugly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | souls *= soul* | | | order | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | present | souls *= soul* | tail | | | | necessary *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 6 | **have** | to-infinitive | souls *= soul* *not said here* | two stout props | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prop=Patient | | 7 | **call** | present | souls *= soul* | two stout props | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme leg=Result | | 8 | **is** | to-infinitive | souls *= soul* *not said here* | | | | | handsome *property* | tree rules | 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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/76/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/76/65/) - ↑ back to [The Little Mermaid, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/76/)