--- title: You will still have the same floating gracefulness of movement, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: You will still have the same floating gracefulness of movement, and no dancer will ever tread so lightly; but at every step you take it will feel as if you were treading upon sharp knives, and that the blood must flow. Who acts: You, dancer, it, blood. 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C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, dancer, it, blood), 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:pg27200:77:12 # text = You will still have the same floating gracefulness of movement, and no dancer will ever tread so lightly; but at every step you take it will feel as if you were treading upon sharp knives, and that the blood must flow. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 still still ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 amod _ _ 8 gracefulness gracefulness NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 14 dancer dancer NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 17 advmod _ _ 17 tread tread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 lightly lightly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 treading tread VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 35 upon upon ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 knives knife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 40 that that SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 43 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 flow flow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | future | You | the same floating gracefulness of movement | | | still | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gracefulness=Patient | | 2 | **float** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **tread** | future | no dancer | | | | ever | lightly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **take** | present | you | | | | | at every step | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | | 5 | **feel** | future | it | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **tread** | past · progressive | you | | | sharp knives | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon knife=Trajectory | | 7 | **flow** | must | the blood | | | | | | 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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/77/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/77/13/) - ↑ back to [The Little Mermaid, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/77/)