--- title: “Perhaps he will amuse my good Polly,” added the lady, looking with… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Perhaps he will amuse my good Polly,” added the lady, looking with a benignant smile at a large green parrot that swung himself backwards and forwards most comfortably in his ring, inside a magnificent brass-wired cage. Who acts: Clerk, lady, large green parrot. 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C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clerk, lady, large green parrot), 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:pg1597:8:110 # text = “Perhaps he will amuse my good Polly,” added the lady, looking with a benignant smile at a large green parrot that swung himself backwards and forwards most comfortably in his ring, inside a magnificent brass-wired cage. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 amuse amuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 6 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Polly polly NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 11 added add VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 benignant benignant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 smile smile NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 swung swing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 26 obj _ _ 28 backwards backwards ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 forwards forward VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 31 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 32 advmod _ _ 32 comfortably comfortably ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 37 inside inside ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 39 magnificent magnificent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 40 brass brass NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 wired wire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 amod _ _ 43 cage cage NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **amuse** *in a quote* | future | Clerk | my good Polly | | | | perhaps *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus polly=Experiencer | | 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | the lady | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **look** | gerund | the lady *not said here* | | | | | with a benignant smile; at a large green parrot | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at parrot=Theme | | 4 | **swing** | past | a large green parrot | Clerk | | | | backwards *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 5 | **forward** | present | a large green parrot *not said here* | | | Clerk's ring | | inside a magnificent wired cage; comfortably *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **wire** | participle | | | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/109/) - next →: [sentence 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/111/) - ↑ back to [The Shoes of Fortune, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/)