--- title: "That is quite out in the great world, on the other side of the ditc… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "That is quite out in the great world, on the other side of the ditch," answered an earwig, "I hope none of my children will ever go so far, it would be the death of me." Who acts: That, earwig, none, ditch. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, earwig, none, ditch), 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:pg27200:8:72 # text = "That is quite out in the great world, on the other side of the ditch," answered an earwig, "I hope none of my children will ever go so far, it would be the death of me." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 4 quite quite ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 out out ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ditch ditch NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 earwig earwig NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 hope hope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 27 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 33 nsubj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 33 advmod _ _ 33 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 38 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 cop _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That | | | the great world | | on the other side of the ditch; out *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | a earwig | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hope** *in a quote* | present | a earwig *= earwig* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | future | none | | | | ever | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | would | ditch | the death | | | | of a earwig *= earwig* | 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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/8/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/8/73/) - ↑ back to [The Beetle Who Went on His Travels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/8/)