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title: Just paint the scenes I describe to you"--this is what he said to me… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Just paint the scenes I describe to you"--this is what he said to me--"and you will have a very pretty picture-book." Who acts: you, I, this, MOON. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 16

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Just paint the scenes I describe to you"--this is what he said to me--"and you will have a very pretty picture-book."

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**Who acts:** you, I, this, MOON · **What happens:** paint, describe, be, say, have · **To what, where:** scenes, you, MOON, pretty picture book · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, this, MOON), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:91:16
# text = Just paint the scenes I describe to you"--this is what he said to me--"and you will have a very pretty picture-book."
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	paint	paint	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	describe	describe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	appos	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | imperative | you *not said here* | the scenes |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent scene=Destination |
| 2 | **describe** | present | I | the scenes *not said here* | you |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent scene=Theme to you=be' |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | MOON |  | MOON |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient |
| 5 | **have** | future | you | a pretty picture book |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient |

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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.

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**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.

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