--- title: So there they both sat, like a king and a queen, under the fragrant… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So there they both sat, like a king and a queen, under the fragrant tree, that looked exactly like an elder: the old man told his wife the story of “Old Nanny,” as it had been told him when a boy. Who acts: flowers, that, old man, boy. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The El --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/136/) [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/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/) / [The Elderbush](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/) / 136 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 136 So there they both sat, like a king and a queen, under the fragrant tree, that looked exactly like an elder: the old man told his wife the story of “Old Nanny,” as it had been told him when a boy. **Who acts:** flowers, that, old man, boy · **What happens:** sit, look, tell · **To what, where:** fragrant tree, elder, story, wife, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, that, old man, boy), 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:pg1597:17:136 # text = So there they both sat, like a king and a queen, under the fragrant tree, that looked exactly like an elder: the old man told his wife the story of “Old Nanny,” as it had been told him when a boy. 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 under under ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 fragrant fragrant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 21 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 elder elder NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 iobj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 “ " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 Nanny Nanny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ” " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 40 as as SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 44 aux:pass _ _ 44 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 ccomp _ _ 45 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 iobj _ _ 46 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 48 advmod _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | flowers *= flower* | | | the fragrant tree; there | | like a king and a queen | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | | 2 | **look** | past | that | a elder | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme elder=Attribute | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the old man | the story of Old Nanny | man's wife | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | a boy | story | man | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient he=Topic | 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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/135/) - next →: [sentence 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/137/) - ↑ back to [The Elderbush](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/)