--- title: Many an old dame came forth from her door into the sunshine, and shu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Many an old dame came forth from her door into the sunshine, and shuffled about with great delight, glancing at the golden flowers which glittered everywhere in the fields, as they used to do in her young days. Who acts: Many, golden flowers, flowers. 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C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, golden flowers, flowers), 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:pg27200:214:77 # text = Many an old dame came forth from her door into the sunshine, and shuffled about with great delight, glancing at the golden flowers which glittered everywhere in the fields, as they used to do in her young days. 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 nsubj _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 dame dame NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 forth forth ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 shuffled shuffle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 delight delight NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 glancing glance VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 glittered glitter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 27 advmod _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Many | | | dame's door | | into the sunshine; forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from door=Initial\_Location into sunshine=Destination | | 2 | **shuffle** | participle | | | | | | with great delight | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with delight=Co-Patient | | 3 | **glance** | gerund | | | | | | at the golden flowers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme | | 4 | **glitter** | past | the golden flowers | | | the fields | | everywhere *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location | | 5 | **use** | past | flowers *= flower* | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | flowers *= flower* *not said here* | | | | day | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/214/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/214/78/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Year](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/214/)