--- title: "I don't care about it either way," cried the woman. " — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "I don't care about it either way," cried the woman. " Who acts: woman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/216/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Sa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/) / 216 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 216 "I don't care about it either way," cried the woman. " **Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** not care, cry · **To what, where:** way · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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:pg27200:211:216 # text = "I don't care about it either way," cried the woman. " 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 either either DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 12 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **care** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the woman *= woman* | either way | | | | about play | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the woman | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | 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 215](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/215/) - next →: [sentence 217](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/217/) - ↑ back to [The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/)