--- title: "Kay, what are you doing?" cried the little girl; and then, when he… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Kay, what are you doing?" cried the little girl; and then, when he saw how frightened she was, he tore off another rose, and jumped through his own window away from little Gerda. Who acts: Kay, little girl, glass, girl. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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, little girl, glass, girl), 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:pg27200:171:49 # text = "Kay, what are you doing?" cried the little girl; and then, when he saw how frightened she was, he tore off another rose, and jumped through his own window away from little Gerda. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Kay Kay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 21 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 22 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 xcomp _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 tore tore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 28 off off ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 30 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 34 through through ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 away away ADV RB _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 Gerda Gerda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Kay | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the little girl | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **see** | past | glass | | | | then | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **frighten** | participle | glass *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | past | girl | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **tore off** | past | glass | another rose | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **jump away** | past | the little girl *not said here* | | | glass's own window | | from little Gerda | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Trajectory | 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. 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