--- title: It was on Twelfth Night, the evening of the festival of the Three Ki… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: It was on Twelfth Night, the evening of the festival of the Three Kings, Mother Soren lit up for Holberg a three-king candle, that is, a tallow candle with three wicks, which she had herself prepared. Who acts: bow, Mother, that, three wicks. 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C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bow, Mother, that, three wicks), 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:pg27200:149:215 # text = It was on Twelfth Night, the evening of the festival of the Three Kings, Mother Soren lit up for Holberg a three-king candle, that is, a tallow candle with three wicks, which she had herself prepared. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 Twelfth twelfth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Night Night PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 festival festival NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 Three Three PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Kings King PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 17 Mother Mother PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 Soren Soren PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ _ 19 lit light VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Holberg Holberg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 24 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 candle candle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 tallow tallow NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 candle candle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 wicks wick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 obj _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 42 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 41 obj _ _ 43 prepared prepare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | bow | | | | on Twelfth Night | | tree rules | | 2 | **light up** | past | Mother | a king candle | | | | for Holberg | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for holberg=Beneficiary | | 3 | **is a** | present | that | a tallow candle | | | | with three wicks | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | past | mother | three wicks | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **prepare** | participle | three wicks *not said here* | | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 214](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/214/) - next →: [sentence 216](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/216/) - ↑ back to [Poultry Meg's Family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/)