--- title: Lend!' she exclaimed, 'I have nothing to lend; nothing at all grows… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Lend!' she exclaimed, 'I have nothing to lend; nothing at all grows in our garden, not even a shrivelled apple; I could not even lend you a shrivelled apple, my dear woman. Who acts: you, schoolmaster, I, nothing. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, schoolmaster, I, nothing), 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:pg27200:132:125 # text = Lend!' she exclaimed, 'I have nothing to lend; nothing at all grows in our garden, not even a shrivelled apple; I could not even lend you a shrivelled apple, my dear woman. 1 Lend lend VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 10 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 9 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 lend lend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 17 nsubj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 14 nmod _ _ 17 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 23 even even ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 shrivelled shrivelled ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 29 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 31 even even ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 lend lend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 shrivelled shrivelled ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lend** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | schoolmaster | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** | present | I | nothing | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | | 4 | **lend** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **grow** | present | nothing | a shrivelled apple | | our garden | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location | | 6 | **not** **lend** | could | I | a shrivelled apple | you | | | my dear woman *vocative* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient apple=Theme | 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. 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