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title: Mother,' she cried, 'what will the little dogs think, when they see… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Mother,' she cried, 'what will the little dogs think, when they see me in these splendid new things?'" Who acts: bride, little dogs, dogs. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixteenth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Sixteenth Evening, sentence 6

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Mother,' she cried, 'what will the little dogs think, when they see me in these splendid new things?'"

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**Who acts:** bride, little dogs, dogs · **What happens:** cry, think, see · **To what, where:** Mother, me, splendid new things

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride, little dogs, dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:107:6
# text = Mother,' she cried, 'what will the little dogs think, when they see me in these splendid new things?'"
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
21	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | bride | Mother |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | future | the little dogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | present | dogs *= dog* | me |  | splendid new things |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |

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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.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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