--- title: "My poor old grandmother!" sighed Gerda; "she is longing to see me,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "My poor old grandmother!" sighed Gerda; "she is longing to see me, and grieving for me as she did for little Kay; but I shall soon go home now, and take little Kay with me. Who acts: poor old grandmother, grandmother, song buttercups. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor old grandmother, grandmother, song buttercups), 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:pg27200:172:121 # text = "My poor old grandmother!" sighed Gerda; "she is longing to see me, and grieving for me as she did for little Kay; but I shall soon go home now, and take little Kay with me. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 sighed sigh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Gerda Gerda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 longing long VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 grieving grieve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 csubj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 Kay Kay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 34 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 35 home home ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 34 parataxis _ _ 40 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 Kay Kay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sigh** | past | My poor old grandmother | Gerda | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **long** *in a quote* | present · progressive | grandmother | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | grandmother *not said here* | the song buttercups *= buttercup* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 4 | **grieve** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | for the song buttercups *= buttercup* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | past | grandmother | | | | | for little Kay | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **go** *in a quote* | shall | the song buttercups *= buttercup* | | | | now | home, soon *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | little Kay | | | with the song buttercups *= buttercup* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument kay=Destination | 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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