--- title: She wanted to go to the hounds, and not to her mother, who went down… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: She wanted to go to the hounds, and not to her mother, who went down into the garden, to the lake where the water-lily bloomed, and the heads of bulrushes nodded amid the reeds; and she looked at all this beauty and freshness. " Who acts: lady, water lily, heads. 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" **Who acts:** lady, water lily, heads · **What happens:** want, go, go down, bloom, nod, amid · **To what, where:** garden, reeds This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (lady, water lily, heads), 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:pg27200:149:28 # text = She wanted to go to the hounds, and not to her mother, who went down into the garden, to the lake where the water-lily bloomed, and the heads of bulrushes nodded amid the reeds; and she looked at all this beauty and freshness. " 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 hounds hound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 down down ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 25 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 30 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 lily lily NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 bloomed bloom VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 bulrushes bulrush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 37 nodded nod VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 amod _ _ 38 amid amid NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 reeds reed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ; ; PUNCT : _ 44 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 45 at at ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 48 det:predet _ _ 47 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 48 det _ _ 48 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 freshness freshness NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 52 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | past | lady | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | lady *not said here* | | | | | to the hounds | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hound=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **go down** | past | | | | the garden | | to the lake; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **bloom** | participle | the water lily | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **nod** | participle | | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **amid** | | the heads of bulrushes | the reeds | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **look** | past | lady | | | | | at all beauty and freshness | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at beauty=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. 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/29/) - ↑ back to [Poultry Meg's Family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/)