--- title: But while they were all amusing themselves, and Kay with them, a gre… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: But while they were all amusing themselves, and Kay with them, a great sledge came by; it was painted white, and in it sat some one wrapped in a rough white fur, and wearing a white cap. Who acts: boy, great sledge, one. 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 (boy, great sledge, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:11734`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:171:65 # text = But while they were all amusing themselves, and Kay with them, a great sledge came by; it was painted white, and in it sat some one wrapped in a rough white fur, and wearing a white cap. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 2 while while SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 all all ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 amusing amuse VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 7 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 Kay Kay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 sledge sledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 by by ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 painted paint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 parataxis _ _ 23 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 28 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 29 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 30 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 31 wrapped wrap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 acl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 wearing wear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 conj _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **amuse** | past · progressive | boy | boy | | | | all *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer | | 2 | **come by** | past | a great sledge | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **paint** | past · passive | | sledge | | | | white *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | | 4 | **sit** | past | some one | | | sledge | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location | | 5 | **wrap** | participle | | some one *not said here* | | a rough white fur | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in fur=Destination | | 6 | **wear** | gerund | | a white cap | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cap=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/171/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/171/66/) - ↑ back to [A Little Boy and a Little Girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/171/)