--- title: About Christmas came a letter from her father to Knud's parents, whi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: About Christmas came a letter from her father to Knud's parents, which stated that they were going on very well in Copenhagen, and mentioning particularly that Joanna's beautiful voice was likely to bring her a brilliant fortune in the future. Who acts: letter, parents, beautiful voice. 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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 (letter, parents, beautiful voice), 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:pg27200:202:53 # text = About Christmas came a letter from her father to Knud's parents, which stated that they were going on very well in Copenhagen, and mentioning particularly that Joanna's beautiful voice was likely to bring her a brilliant fortune in the future. 1 About about ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 Knud Knud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 stated state VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 ccomp _ _ 20 on on ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 very very ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Copenhagen Copenhagen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 27 mentioning mention VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 csubj _ _ 28 particularly particularly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 30 Joanna Joanna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 future future NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | a letter from letter's father to Knud's parents | | | | | about Christmas | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about christmas=Location | | 2 | **state** *speech: other* | past | Knud's parents | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **go on** | past · progressive | parents *= parent* | | | Copenhagen | | well *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in copenhagen=Location | | 4 | **mention** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | particularly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | past | Joanna's beautiful voice | | | | | likely *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **bring** | to-infinitive | Joanna's beautiful voice *not said here* | a brilliant fortune | letter | the future | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination fortune=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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/54/) - ↑ back to [Under the Willow-tree, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/202/)