--- title: The farmer's wife preserves them and strews salt among them; then th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The farmer's wife preserves them and strews salt among them; then they get a French name which I neither can pronounce nor care to, and are put into the fire to make a nice smell. Who acts: wife, roses, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Fam --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/124/43/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Neighbouring Families](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/124/) / 43 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 43 The farmer's wife preserves them and strews salt among them; then they get a French name which I neither can pronounce nor care to, and are put into the fire to make a nice smell. **Who acts:** wife, roses, I · **What happens:** preserve, strew, get, pronounce, care, put · **To what, where:** roses, salt, French name, fire, nice smell This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, roses, I), 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:pg27200:124:43 # text = The farmer's wife preserves them and strews salt among them; then they get a French name which I neither can pronounce nor care to, and are put into the fire to make a nice smell. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 preserves preserve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 strews strew VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 among among ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 obj _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 neither neither ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 pronounce pronounce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl:relcl _ _ 24 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 25 cc _ _ 25 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **preserve** | present | the farmer's wife | roses *= rose* | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | | 2 | **strew** | present | the farmer's wife *not said here* | salt | | | | among roses *= rose* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent salt=Theme among they=Destination | | 3 | **get** | present | roses *= rose* | a French name | | | then | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | | 4 | **pronounce** | can | I | a French name | | | | neither *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 5 | **care** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **put** | present · passive | roses *= rose* *not said here* | | | the fire | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» | | 7 | **make** | to-infinitive | roses *= rose* *not said here* | a nice smell | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset smell=Product | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/124/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/124/44/) - ↑ back to [The Neighbouring Families](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/124/)