--- title: She sang of herself and of her family, of the arrival of the potato… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: She sang of herself and of her family, of the arrival of the potato in Europe, of the misrepresentation to which she had been exposed before she was acknowledged, as she is now, to be a greater treasure than a lump of gold. Who acts: woman, potato. 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C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, potato), 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:pg27200:206:38 # text = She sang of herself and of her family, of the arrival of the potato in Europe, of the misrepresentation to which she had been exposed before she was acknowledged, as she is now, to be a greater treasure than a lump of gold. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 2 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 of of 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 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 arrival arrival NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 potato potato NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 misrepresentation misrepresentation NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 obl _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 exposed expose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl:relcl _ _ 28 before before SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 acknowledged acknowledge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 36 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 cop _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 42 amod _ _ 42 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 43 than than ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 lump lump NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | woman | | | | | of woman | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 2 | **expose** | past · perfect · passive | | woman | the misrepresentation | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to which=Recipient | | 3 | **acknowledge** | past · passive | | woman | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 4 | **be** | present | woman | | | | now | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | a greater treasure | | | | than a lump of gold | tree rules | | 6 | **arrive** | | the potato in Europe | | | | | | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/206/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/206/39/) - ↑ back to [What One Can Invent](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/206/)