--- title: The bird of good omen shall be yours, and you shall become a rich an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The bird of good omen shall be yours, and you shall become a rich and happy man; your house shall rise up like King Waldemar's towers, and shall be richly adorned with marble statues, like those at Prastoe. Who acts: bird, you, house. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, you, house), 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:pg27200:80:68 # text = The bird of good omen shall be yours, and you shall become a rich and happy man; your house shall rise up like King Waldemar's towers, and shall be richly adorned with marble statues, like those at Prastoe. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 omen omen NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 cop _ _ 8 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 rise rise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ _ 27 Waldemar Waldemar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 28 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 29 towers tower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux:pass _ _ 34 richly richly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 adorned adorn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 marble marble NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 statues statue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 like like ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 38 nmod _ _ 42 at at ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 Prastoe Prastoe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | shall | the bird of good omen | yours | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **become** | shall | you | a rich man | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **rise up** | shall | your house | | | | | like King's towers | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **adorn** | shall · passive | your house *not said here* | | | | | with marble statues like those; richly *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with statue=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 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/80/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/80/69/) - ↑ back to [Little Tuk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/80/)