--- title: "It could not be true," he thought, "that she was really a wicked wi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "It could not be true," he thought, "that she was really a wicked witch, who ordered people to be hanged or beheaded, if they could not guess her thoughts. Who acts: whip, face, princess, wicked witch. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whip, face, princess, wicked witch), 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:pg27200:197:46 # text = "It could not be true," he thought, "that she was really a wicked witch, who ordered people to be hanged or beheaded, if they could not guess her thoughts. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 6 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 16 really really ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 hanged hange VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 advcl _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 beheaded behead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 if if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 guess guess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | could | whip | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | face | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | princess | a wicked witch | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **order** *in a quote* | past | a wicked witch | | people | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 5 | **hange** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | a wicked witch *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **behead** *in a quote* | participle | a wicked witch *not said here* | | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **not** **guess** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | could | people | princess's thoughts | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme | | 8 | **think** *in a quote* | | princess | | | | | | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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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