--- title: “I am a Kjoger hen,” [*] said she, and then she related how many inh… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “I am a Kjoger hen,” [*] said she, and then she related how many inhabitants there were there, and about the battle that had taken place, and which, after all, was hardly worth talking about. Who acts: hen, battle. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/25/18/) [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 Dream of Little Tuk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/25/) / 18 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 18 “I am a Kjoger hen,” \[\*\] said she, and then she related how many inhabitants there were there, and about the battle that had taken place, and which, after all, was hardly worth talking about. **Who acts:** hen, battle · **What happens:** be, say, relate, take, talk about · **To what, where:** Kjoger hen, many inhabitants, battle · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hen, battle), 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:pg1597:25:18 # text = “I am a Kjoger hen,” [*] said she, and then she related how many inhabitants there were there, and about the battle that had taken place, and which, after all, was hardly worth talking about. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Kjoger Kjoger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 * * PUNCT NFP _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 related relate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 20 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 23 expl _ _ 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 about about ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl:relcl _ _ 33 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 38 after after ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 parataxis _ _ 44 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 advcl _ _ 45 about about ADP IN _ 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | hen | a Kjoger hen | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | hen | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **relate** | past | hen | many inhabitants | | | then | about the battle | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Theme | | 4 | **take** | past · perfect · passive | | the battle | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination | | 5 | **is** | past | the battle | | | | | hardly, worth *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **talk about** | gerund | the battle *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/25/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/25/19/) - ↑ back to [The Dream of Little Tuk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/25/)