--- title: Sometimes the children would bring a large basket of raspberries or… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Sometimes the children would bring a large basket of raspberries or strawberries, wreathed on a straw, and seat themselves near the fir-tree, and say, "Is it not a pretty little tree?" which made it feel more unhappy than before. Who acts: children, tree, little tree. 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C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, tree, little tree), 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:pg27200:33:3 # text = Sometimes the children would bring a large basket of raspberries or strawberries, wreathed on a straw, and seat themselves near the fir-tree, and say, "Is it not a pretty little tree?" which made it feel more unhappy than before. 1 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 raspberries raspberry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 strawberries strawberry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 wreathed wreathe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 21 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 20 nmod:unmarked _ _ 22 near near ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 fir fir NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ? ? PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 41 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 42 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 45 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 46 advmod _ _ 46 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 xcomp _ _ 47 than than ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 before before ADV RB _ 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | would | the children | a large basket of raspberries or strawberries | | the fir tree | | seat children *obl*; sometimes *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | | 2 | **wreathe** | participle | | raspberries or strawberries *not said here* | | a straw | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | tree | a little tree | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | past | a little tree | tree | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **feel** | infinitive | tree *not said here* | | | | | unhappy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/4/) - ↑ back to [The Fir Tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/)