--- title: The week after, she sent little Eliza into the country to a peasant… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The week after, she sent little Eliza into the country to a peasant and his wife, and then she told the king so many untrue things about the young princes, that he gave himself no more trouble respecting them. Who acts: queen, king, more trouble. 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C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (queen, king, more trouble), 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:pg27200:208:9 # text = The week after, she sent little Eliza into the country to a peasant and his wife, and then she told the king so many untrue things about the young princes, that he gave himself no more trouble respecting them. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 after after ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Eliza Eliza PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 untrue untrue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 29 about about ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 37 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 36 iobj _ _ 38 no no ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 40 amod _ _ 40 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 41 respecting respect VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 acl _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | queen | little Eliza | a peasant and Eliza's wife | the country | week | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eliza=Theme to peasant=Destination | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | queen | many untrue things | the king | | then | about the young princes | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient thing=Topic | | 3 | **give** | past | king | more trouble | king | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient trouble=Theme | | 4 | **respect** | gerund | more trouble *not said here* | things *= thing* | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/10/) - ↑ back to [The Wild Swans, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/)