--- title: The great white snails which persons of quality in former times made… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The great white snails which persons of quality in former times made fricassees of, ate, and said, “Hem, hem! how delicious!” for they thought it tasted so delicate--lived on dock-leaves, and therefore burdock seeds were sown. Who acts: persons, delightfulness. 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C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (persons, delightfulness), 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:pg1597:20:3 # text = The great white snails which persons of quality in former times made fricassees of, ate, and said, “Hem, hem! how delicious!” for they thought it tasted so delicate--lived on dock-leaves, and therefore burdock seeds were sown. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 snails snail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 5 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 6 det _ _ 6 persons person NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 quality quality NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 12 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 fricassees fricassee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 “ " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Hem hem NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 hem hem NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ! ! PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ 26 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 27 delicious delicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ! ! PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ” " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 30 for for SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 tasted taste VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 delicate delicate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 -- -- PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 lived live VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 conj _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 dock dock NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 45 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 46 burdock burdock NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nsubj _ _ 48 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux:pass _ _ 49 sown sow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | which persons of quality | the great white snails | | | time | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fricassee=Product | | 2 | **eat** | past | which persons of quality *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | which persons of quality *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | persons *= person* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **taste** | past | delightfulness | | | | | delicate *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **live** | participle | delightfulness *not said here* | | | dock leaves | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leaf=Location | | 7 | **sow** | past · passive | | burdock seeds | | | | therefore *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | 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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/20/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/20/4/) - ↑ back to [The Happy Family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/20/)