---
title: But the little daughter of the merchant became very angry at this sp… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the little daughter of the merchant became very angry at this speech, for her father's name was Petersen, and she knew that the name ended in "sen," and therefore she said as proudly as she could, "But my papa can buy a hundred dollars' worth of bonbons, and give them away to children. Who acts:
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/18/14/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Children's Prattle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/18/) / 14

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 14

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
But the little daughter of the merchant became very angry at this speech, for her father's name was Petersen, and she knew that the name ended in "sen," and therefore she said as proudly as she could, "But my papa can buy a hundred dollars' worth of bonbons, and give them away to children.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** little daughter, name, daughter, papa, father · **What happens:** become, be, know, end, say, buy · **To what, where:** sen, worth, names · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little daughter, name, daughter, papa), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:18:14
# text = But the little daughter of the merchant became very angry at this speech, for her father's name was Petersen, and she knew that the name ended in "sen," and therefore she said as proudly as she could, "But my papa can buy a hundred dollars' worth of bonbons, and give them away to children.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	sen	sen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
39	as	as	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
41	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
42	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	papa	papa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	parataxis	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	53	nummod	_	_
53	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	'	's	PART	POS	_	53	case	_	_
55	worth	worth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	bonbons	bonbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	conj	_	_
61	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	iobj	_	_
62	away	away	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
63	to	to	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the little daughter of the merchant |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | daughter's father's name |  |  |  |  | for Petersen | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | past | daughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **end** | past | the name |  |  | sen |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | daughter |  |  |  |  | proudly, therefore *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **buy** *in a quote* | can | my papa | hundred dollars's worth of bonbons |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worth=Theme |
| 7 | **give away** *in a quote* | infinitive | my papa *not said here* |  | names *= name* |  |  | to children; away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to child=Recipient |
| 8 | **name** |  | daughter's father |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/18/13/)
- next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/18/15/)
- ↑ back to [Children's Prattle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/18/)