--- title: But now I can lend her ten, or a whole sackful, which I'm very glad… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: But now I can lend her ten, or a whole sackful, which I'm very glad of; it makes me laugh to think about it;" and then she gave him a hearty kiss. Who acts: I, whole sackful, sackful, me. 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 (I, whole sackful, sackful, me), 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:pg27200:132:126 # text = But now I can lend her ten, or a whole sackful, which I'm very glad of; it makes me laugh to think about it;" and then she gave him a hearty kiss. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 lend lend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 sackful sackful NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 very very ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 23 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 about about ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 iobj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 hearty hearty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 kiss kiss NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lend** | can | I | ten | schoolmaster | | now | a whole sackful *obl* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient ten=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | a whole sackful | | | | | glad *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | present | sackful | me | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **laugh** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | me *not said here* | | | | | about sackful | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 6 | **give** *in a quote* | past | schoolmaster | a hearty kiss | goose | | then | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kiss=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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