--- title: Some great gifted painter, or some poet or musician, may make someth… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Some great gifted painter, or some poet or musician, may make something more of them if he likes; what I have given here are only hasty sketches, hurriedly put upon the paper, with some of my own thoughts, interspersed; for the Moon did not come to me every evening--a cloud sometimes hid his face fr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/91/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [What the Moon Saw](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/91/) / 20 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 20 Some great gifted painter, or some poet or musician, may make something more of them if he likes; what I have given here are only hasty sketches, hurriedly put upon the paper, with some of my own thoughts, interspersed; for the Moon did not come to me every evening--a cloud sometimes hid his face from me. **Who acts:** Some, great gifted painter, painter, Moon, cloud, my · **What happens:** gift, painter, make, like, give, be · **To what, where:** something, hasty sketches, paper, me, face 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 (Some, great gifted painter, painter, Moon), 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:pg27200:91:20 # text = Some great gifted painter, or some poet or musician, may make something more of them if he likes; what I have given here are only hasty sketches, hurriedly put upon the paper, with some of my own thoughts, interspersed; for the Moon did not come to me every evening--a cloud sometimes hid his face from me. 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 nsubj _ _ 2 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 gifted gift VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 painter painter NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 8 det _ _ 8 poet poet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 musician musician NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 12 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obj _ _ 15 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 amod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nmod _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 likes like VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 case _ _ 26 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 hasty hasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 sketches sketch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 hurriedly hurriedly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 34 upon upon ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 33 conj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 interspersed intersperse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ; ; PUNCT : _ 52 punct _ _ 47 for for SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 50 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 51 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 52 advmod _ _ 52 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ _ 53 to to ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 52 obl _ _ 55 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 56 det _ _ 56 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 57 -- -- PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 nsubj _ _ 60 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 61 advmod _ _ 61 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 conj _ _ 62 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 63 nmod:poss _ _ 63 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obj _ _ 64 from from ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 65 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 61 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gift** | participle | | | | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **painter** | | Some | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | may | great gifted painter | something | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset something=Product | | 4 | **like** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | painter | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **give** | present · perfect · passive | | hasty sketches | | here | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | | | | | | give hasty sketches | tree rules | | 7 | **put** | participle | | hasty sketches *not said here* | | the paper | | hurriedly *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon paper=Destination | | 8 | **intersperse** | participle | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **not** **come** | past · do-support | the Moon | | me | | evening | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location | | 10 | **hide** | past | a cloud | MOON's face | | | | from me; sometimes *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent face=Patient from i=Beneficiary | | 11 | **think** | | my | | | | | | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/91/19/) - next →: [First Evening, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/92/1/) - ↑ back to [What the Moon Saw](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/91/)