--- title: One day Kay and Gerda sat looking at a book full of pictures of anim… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: One day Kay and Gerda sat looking at a book full of pictures of animals and birds, and then just as the clock in the church tower struck twelve, Kay said, "Oh, something has struck my heart!" and soon after, "There is something in my eye." Who acts: Kay, clock. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Chr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/171/39/) [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/) / [A Little Boy and a Little Girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/171/) / 39 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 39 One day Kay and Gerda sat looking at a book full of pictures of animals and birds, and then just as the clock in the church tower struck twelve, Kay said, "Oh, something has struck my heart!" and soon after, "There is something in my eye." **Who acts:** Kay, clock · **What happens:** sit, look, strike, say, be · **To what, where:** twelve, something, eye · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, clock), 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:pg27200:171:39 # text = One day Kay and Gerda sat looking at a book full of pictures of animals and birds, and then just as the clock in the church tower struck twelve, Kay said, "Oh, something has struck my heart!" and soon after, "There is something in my eye." 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 Kay Kay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 Gerda Gerda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 20 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 21 just just ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 29 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 30 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 Kay Kay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 40 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 38 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 struck strike VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 conj _ _ 41 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ! ! PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 46 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 52 advmod _ _ 47 after after SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 49 " " PUNCT `` _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 51 expl _ _ 51 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 52 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 40 conj _ _ 53 in in ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 55 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | Kay and Gerda | | | | day | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **look** | gerund | Kay and Gerda *not said here* | | | | | at a book | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at book=Theme | | 3 | **strike** | past | the clock in the church tower | twelve | | | then | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient | | 4 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Kay | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **strike** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | something | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient heart=Result | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | something | | my eye | | soon *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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/171/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/171/40/) - ↑ back to [A Little Boy and a Little Girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/171/)