--- title: Unseen we can enter the houses of men, where there are children, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Unseen we can enter the houses of men, where there are children, and for every day on which we find a good child, who is the joy of his parents and deserves their love, our time of probation is shortened. Who acts: Unseen, we, good child, parents. 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C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Unseen, we, good child, parents), 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:pg27200:78:53 # text = Unseen we can enter the houses of men, where there are children, and for every day on which we find a good child, who is the joy of his parents and deserves their love, our time of probation is shortened. 1 Unseen unseen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 nsubj _ _ 2 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 enter enter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 12 advmod _ _ 11 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 12 expl _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 obl _ _ 21 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 deserves deserve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 36 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 probation probation NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux:pass _ _ 44 shortened shorten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enter** | can | Unseen | the houses | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination | | 2 | **is a** | present | | children | | | | of men | tree rules | | 3 | **find** | present | we | a good child | | | day | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic | | 4 | **is a** | present | a good child | the joy | | | | of air's parents | tree rules | | 5 | **deserve** | present | we *not said here* | parents's love and our time | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **shorten** | present · passive | | our time *not said here* | | | | of probation | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | | 7 | **love** | | parents *= parent* | | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/78/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/78/54/) - ↑ back to [The Little Mermaid, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/78/)