--- title: Another half-year went by, and her mistress said, "you ought to go h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Another half-year went by, and her mistress said, "you ought to go home again, and visit your parents, Inge, and I will give you a large wheaten loaf to take to them, they will be glad to see you, I am sure." Who acts: mistress, you, parents. 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C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress, you, parents), 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:pg27200:37:17 # text = Another half-year went by, and her mistress said, "you ought to go home again, and visit your parents, Inge, and I will give you a large wheaten loaf to take to them, they will be glad to see you, I am sure." 1 Another another DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 2 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 mistress mistress NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 18 home home ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 again again ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Inge Inge PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 iobj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 wheaten wheaten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 loaf loaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 43 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 45 cop _ _ 45 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 advcl _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 xcomp _ _ 48 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 51 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 52 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go by** | past | | | | | year | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | mother's mistress | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | ought | you | | | | again | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **visit** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your parents | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Co-Agent | | 5 | **give** *in a quote* | future | mother's mistress *= mistress* | a large wheaten loaf | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient loaf=Theme | | 6 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | mother's mistress *= mistress* *not said here* | a large wheaten loaf *not said here* | parents *= parent* | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to they=Result | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | future | parents *= parent* | | | | | glad *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | parents *= parent* *not said here* | you | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 9 | **is** *in a quote* | present | mother's mistress *= mistress* | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | 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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/37/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/37/18/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/37/)