--- title: Marie Grubbe used to call him her Soren, and that was a great favor,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Marie Grubbe used to call him her Soren, and that was a great favor, and was an advantage to Soren's father--poor Jon, who had one day committed a fault, and was to be punished by riding on the wooden horse. Who acts: Marie, that, poor Jon, one day. 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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 (Marie, that, poor Jon, one day), 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:pg27200:149:22 # text = Marie Grubbe used to call him her Soren, and that was a great favor, and was an advantage to Soren's father--poor Jon, who had one day committed a fault, and was to be punished by riding on the wooden horse. 1 Marie Marie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Grubbe Grubbe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 Soren Soren PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 favor favor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 advantage advantage NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 Soren Soren PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 -- -- PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 Jon Jon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 committed commit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 punished punish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 42 by by SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 43 riding ride VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 advcl _ _ 44 on on ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | past | Marie | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **call** | to-infinitive | Marie *not said here* | | Marie | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 3 | **is a** | past | that | a great favor | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | past | | a advantage | | | | to Soren's father | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | past | poor Jon | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **commit** | past | one day | a fault | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Theme | | 7 | **punish** | past · passive | Marie *not said here* | | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» | | 8 | **ride** | gerund | Marie *not said here* | | | | | on the wooden horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/23/) - ↑ back to [Poultry Meg's Family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/)