--- title: The people of Kjoge, and even the rich wife of the man who kept the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The people of Kjoge, and even the rich wife of the man who kept the fancy shop, would stand and listen while Joanna was singing, and say, "She has really a very sweet voice." Who acts: man, people, Joanna. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, people, Joanna), 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:pg27200:202:44 # text = The people of Kjoge, and even the rich wife of the man who kept the fancy shop, would stand and listen while Joanna was singing, and say, "She has really a very sweet voice." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Kjoge Kjoge PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 even even ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 fancy fancy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 20 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 24 while while SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 Joanna Joanna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 35 really really ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 very very ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | the man | the fancy shop | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Theme | | 2 | **stand** | would | the people of Kjoge the rich wife of the man | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **listen** | infinitive | the people of Kjoge the rich wife of the man *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · progressive | Joanna | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the people of Kjoge the rich wife of the man *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Joanna | a sweet voice | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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. 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. - ← previous: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/45/) - ↑ back to [Under the Willow-tree, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/)