--- title: I lie on the sea-shore," said Corsor; "I have high-roads and pleasur… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: I lie on the sea-shore," said Corsor; "I have high-roads and pleasure-gardens; I have given birth to a poet who was witty and entertaining, which they are not all. Who acts: I, Corsor, poet. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Corsor, poet), 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:pg27200:80:36 # text = I lie on the sea-shore," said Corsor; "I have high-roads and pleasure-gardens; I have given birth to a poet who was witty and entertaining, which they are not all. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 Corsor Corsor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 gardens garden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 27 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 poet poet NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 witty witty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 entertaining entertain VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | I | | | the sea shore | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Corsor | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | present | I | high roads and pleasure gardens | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | | 4 | **give** | present · perfect | I | birth | a poet | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to poet=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | past | a poet | | | | | witty *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **entertain** | gerund | a poet *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/80/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/80/37/) - ↑ back to [Little Tuk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/80/)