--- title: They had great-grand-children, and were soon to celebrate the fiftie… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They had great-grand-children, and were soon to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage; but they could not exactly recollect the date: and old Granny sat in the tree, and looked as pleased as now. ' Who acts: wife, old Granny. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, T --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/42/) [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/) / 42 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 42 They had great-grand-children, and were soon to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage; but they could not exactly recollect the date: and old Granny sat in the tree, and looked as pleased as now. ' **Who acts:** wife, old Granny · **What happens:** have, celebrate, not recollect, sit, look, marry · **To what, where:** great grand children, fiftieth anniversary, date, tree 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 (wife, old Granny), 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:pg1597:17:42 # text = They had great-grand-children, and were soon to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage; but they could not exactly recollect the date: and old Granny sat in the tree, and looked as pleased as now. ' 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 11 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 celebrate celebrate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 fiftieth fiftieth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 anniversary anniversary NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 25 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 recollect recollect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 Granny Granny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 40 as as ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ _ 42 as as ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ 45 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | wife | great grand children | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 2 | **celebrate** | past | wife *not said here* | the fiftieth anniversary of wife's marriage | | | | soon *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anniversary=Theme | | 3 | **not** **recollect** | could | wife | the date | | | | exactly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent date=Theme | | 4 | **sit** | past | old Granny | | | the tree | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location | | 5 | **look** | past | old Granny *not said here* | | | | | pleased *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **marry** | | wife | | | | | | nom marriage «state 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:** «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 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/43/) - ↑ back to [The Elderbush](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/17/)