--- title: "You lay gold, and I lay eggs," said stork-mamma; "with you it is on… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "You lay gold, and I lay eggs," said stork-mamma; "with you it is only once in a way, I lay eggs every year But no one appreciates what we do; I call it very mortifying." Who acts: You, stork mamma, fortune, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, stork mamma, fortune, one), 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:pg27200:88:45 # text = "You lay gold, and I lay eggs," said stork-mamma; "with you it is only once in a way, I lay eggs every year But no one appreciates what we do; I call it very mortifying." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 4 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 stork stork NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 mamma mamma NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 only only ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 29 advmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 30 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 32 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 But but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 35 det _ _ 35 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 appreciates appreciate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 37 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 39 obj _ _ 38 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 41 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 very very ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 mortifying mortify VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** *in a quote* | present | You | gold | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Result | | 2 | **lay** *in a quote* | present | stork mamma *= mamma* | eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | stork mamma | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | fortune | | | | | with you; once *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **lay** *in a quote* | present | stork mamma *= mamma* | eggs | | a way | year | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in way=Destination | | 6 | **appreciate** *in a quote* | present | no one | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **do** *in a quote* | present | we | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 8 | **call** *in a quote* | present | stork mamma *= mamma* | fortune | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 9 | **mortify** *in a quote* | gerund | stork mamma *= mamma* *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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/46/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/)