--- title: A pretty servant-maid was just filling her pails, and she gave Knud… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: A pretty servant-maid was just filling her pails, and she gave Knud a refreshing draught; she had a handful of roses, and she gave him one, which appeared to him like a good omen for the future. Who acts: pretty servant maid, maid, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (pretty servant maid, maid, one), 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:pg27200:203:58 # text = A pretty servant-maid was just filling her pails, and she gave Knud a refreshing draught; she had a handful of roses, and she gave him one, which appeared to him like a good omen for the future. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 just just ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 filling fill VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 pails pail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 15 Knud Knud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 iobj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 refreshing refresh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 amod _ _ 18 draught draught NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 handful handful NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 roses rose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 like like ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 omen omen NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 future future NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fill** | past · progressive | a pretty servant maid | maid's pails | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pail=Patient | | 2 | **give** | past | maid | a refreshing draught | Knud | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent knud=Recipient draught=Theme | | 3 | **refresh** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **have** | past | maid | a handful of roses | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Patient | | 5 | **give** | past | maid | | Knud | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **appear** | past | one | | Knud | | | like a good omen for the future | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/59/) - ↑ back to [Under the Willow-tree, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/203/)