--- title: When madam awoke afterwards, there he stood before her with a little… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: When madam awoke afterwards, there he stood before her with a little corn he had found, and laid it at her feet; but as she had not slept well, she was naturally in a bad temper. " Who acts: madam, bird. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/145/88/) [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 Portuguese Duck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/145/) / 88 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 88 When madam awoke afterwards, there he stood before her with a little corn he had found, and laid it at her feet; but as she had not slept well, she was naturally in a bad temper. " **Who acts:** madam, bird · **What happens:** awake, stand, find, lay, not sleep, be · **To what, where:** little corn, corn, feet, bad temper This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (madam, bird), 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:pg27200:145:88 # text = When madam awoke afterwards, there he stood before her with a little corn he had found, and laid it at her feet; but as she had not slept well, she was naturally in a bad temper. " 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 madam madam NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 8 expl _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 before before ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 slept sleep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 32 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 36 naturally naturally ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 temper temper NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **awake** | past | madam | | | | | afterwards *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stand** | past | bird | | | there | before madam | with a little corn | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location | | 3 | **find** | past · perfect | bird | a little corn *not said here* | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Topic | | 4 | **lay** | past | bird *not said here* | corn | | madam's feet | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at foot=Destination | | 5 | **not** **sleep** | past · perfect | madam | | | | | well *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | madam | | | a bad temper | | naturally *property* | tree rules | 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 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/145/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/145/89/) - ↑ back to [The Portuguese Duck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/145/)