--- title: I heard her tell the two others to take great care of the swan's plu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: I heard her tell the two others to take great care of the swan's plumage, while she dipped down into the water to pluck the flowers which she fancied she saw there. Who acts: I, swan, flowers, plumage. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, swan, flowers, plumage), 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:pg27200:83:40 # text = I heard her tell the two others to take great care of the swan's plumage, while she dipped down into the water to pluck the flowers which she fancied she saw there. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 10 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 swan swan NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 plumage plumage NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 dipped dip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 down down ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 pluck pluck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 fancied fancy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 34 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | I | swan | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | swan *not said here* | the two others | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent other=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | great care of the swan's plumage | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | | 4 | **dip down** | past | swan | | | the water | | down *property* | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Location | | 5 | **pluck** | to-infinitive | swan *not said here* | the flowers | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | | 6 | **fancy** | past | the flowers | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **see** | past | swan | | | there | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **care** | | the swan's plumage | | | | | | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/83/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/83/41/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/83/)