--- title: There was also a widow, who became glowing hot, but I left her stand… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: There was also a widow, who became glowing hot, but I left her standing till she got black again; there was also the first opera dancer, she gave me that cut which I now go with, she was so ferocious! Who acts: widow, I, that. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow, I, that), 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:pg1597:22:59 # text = There was also a widow, who became glowing hot, but I left her standing till she got black again; there was also the first opera dancer, she gave me that cut which I now go with, she was so ferocious! 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 3 also also ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 9 glowing glow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ _ 10 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 17 till till SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 20 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 again again ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 24 expl _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 25 also also ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 29 amod _ _ 28 opera opera NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 dancer dancer NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 33 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 iobj _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 parataxis _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 39 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 ccomp _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 so so ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 ferocious ferocious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ! ! PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | a widow | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **glow** | gerund | a widow *not said here* | | | | | hot *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **leave** | past | I | widow | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 4 | **stand** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **get** | past | widow | | | | | black *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is a** | past | | the first opera dancer | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **give** | past | widow | | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 8 | **cut** | past | that | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **go** | present | | | | | now | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **is** | past | widow | | | | | ferocious *property* | tree rules | 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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/22/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/22/60/) - ↑ back to [The False Collar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/22/)