--- title: Let us be happy," said the old lady, "and dart and spring about duri… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Let us be happy," said the old lady, "and dart and spring about during the three hundred years that we have to live, which is really quite long enough; after that we can rest ourselves all the better. Who acts: we, hundred years. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (we, hundred years), 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:pg27200:76:66 # text = Let us be happy," said the old lady, "and dart and spring about during the three hundred years that we have to live, which is really quite long enough; after that we can rest ourselves all the better. 1 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 compound _ _ 2 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 dart dart NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 18 during during ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 compound _ _ 21 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 obj _ _ 24 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 really really ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 quite quite ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 34 enough enough ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 after after SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 fixed _ _ 38 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 41 ourselves ourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 40 obj _ _ 42 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 44 det:predet _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 40 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | infinitive | | us | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | | 2 | **is** | infinitive | | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | | the old lady and dart and spring and the hundred years | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | we | the hundred years | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **live** | to-infinitive | the hundred years *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | | | | | | enough, long *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **rest** | can | we | ourselves | | | | good *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ourselves=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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/76/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/76/67/) - ↑ back to [The Little Mermaid, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/76/)