--- title: "Oh, the crow is dead," she replied; "his tame sweetheart is now a w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Oh, the crow is dead," she replied; "his tame sweetheart is now a widow, and wears a bit of black worsted round her leg. Who acts: crow, tame sweetheart. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crow, tame sweetheart), 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:pg27200:176:47 # text = "Oh, the crow is dead," she replied; "his tame sweetheart is now a widow, and wears a bit of black worsted round her leg. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 tame tame ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 sweetheart sweetheart NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 wears wear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 27 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 28 worsted worst VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ _ 29 round round ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the crow | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | crow | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Kay's tame sweetheart | a widow | | | now | | tree rules | | 4 | **wear** *in a quote* | present | crow *not said here* | a bit of crow's black worsted leg | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bit=Source | | 5 | **worst** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | 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. 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