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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 194

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He remembered a story told of her, that on one occasion, when she was carrying a basket full of wine and provisions, her husband, who had watched her footsteps, stepped forward and asked her angrily what she carried in her basket, whereupon, with fear and trembling, she answered, "Roses, which I have plucked from the garden."

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**Who acts:** weather, Lady, husband · **What happens:** remember, tell, carry, watch, step forward, ask · **To what, where:** story, one occasion, basket, footsteps, Lady, Roses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather, Lady, husband), 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:pg27200:128:194
# text = He remembered a story told of her, that on one occasion, when she was carrying a basket full of wine and provisions, her husband, who had watched her footsteps, stepped forward and asked her angrily what she carried in her basket, whereupon, with fear and trembling, she answered, "Roses, which I have plucked from the garden."
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
36	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
39	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	iobj	_	_
40	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	38	obj	_	_
42	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	parataxis	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	Roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
61	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	64	nsubj:pass	_	_
62	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
63	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	64	aux	_	_
64	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	59	acl:relcl	_	_
65	from	from	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
67	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | weather | a story |  | one occasion |  | that *obl* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | a story *not said here* |  |  |  | of Lady | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **carry** | past · progressive | Lady | a basket and Lady's husband |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme |
| 4 | **watch** | past · perfect | Lady's husband | Lady's footsteps |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footstep=Theme |
| 5 | **step forward** | past |  |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | Lady |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **carry** | past | Lady |  |  | Lady's basket |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in basket=Location |
| 8 | **tremble** | gerund | Lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Lady | Roses |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **pluck** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | Roses |  | the garden |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from garden=Source |

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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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