--- title: I am cold, and I'm so wet!” exclaimed suddenly a child that stood cr… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: I am cold, and I'm so wet!” exclaimed suddenly a child that stood crying at the door and knocking for admittance, while the rain poured down, and the wind made all the windows rattle. Who acts: I, good old poet, child, rain. 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 (I, good old poet, child, rain), 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:pg1597:26:6 # text = I am cold, and I'm so wet!” exclaimed suddenly a child that stood crying at the door and knocking for admittance, while the rain poured down, and the wind made all the windows rattle. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ! ! PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 12 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 13 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 crying cry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 xcomp _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 knocking knock VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 conj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 admittance admittance NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 while while SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 poured pour VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 parataxis _ _ 31 down down ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 37 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 39 det:predet _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 rattle rattle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | I | | | | | cold *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | I | | | | | wet *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* *in a quote* | participle | the good old poet *= poet* *not said here* | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stand** *in a quote* | past | a child | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund | a child *not said here* | | | the door | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location | | 6 | **knock** *in a quote* | gerund | a child *not said here* | | | | | for admittance | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **pour down** *in a quote* | participle | the rain | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 8 | **make** *in a quote* | past | the wind | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **rattle** *in a quote* | present | all windows | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/26/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/26/7/) - ↑ back to [The Naughty Boy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/26/)