--- title: The neighbors were separated, the mother of the little girl was dead… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The neighbors were separated, the mother of the little girl was dead, and her father had thoughts of marrying again and of residing in the capital, where he had been promised a very lucrative appointment as messenger. Who acts: mother, father, thoughts. 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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 (mother, father, thoughts), 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:pg27200:202:46 # text = The neighbors were separated, the mother of the little girl was dead, and her father had thoughts of marrying again and of residing in the capital, where he had been promised a very lucrative appointment as messenger. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 neighbors neighbor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 separated separate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 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 18 nsubj _ _ 18 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 19 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 of of SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 marrying marry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 22 again again ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 of of SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 residing reside VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 34 advmod _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 promised promise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl:relcl _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 very very ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 lucrative lucrative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 appointment appointment NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 39 as as ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 messenger messenger NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **separate** | past · passive | | the neighbors | | | | | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **is** | past | the mother of the little girl | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | past | girl's father | thoughts | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | | 4 | **marry** | gerund | thoughts *not said here* | | | | again | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **reside** | gerund | thoughts *not said here* | | | the capital | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in capital=Location | | 6 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect · passive | | father | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal appointment=Theme | 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 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/47/) - ↑ back to [Under the Willow-tree, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/)