--- title: "Shall I tell you news, Peter?" she asked when she came home. " — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Shall I tell you news, Peter?" she asked when she came home. " Who acts: Peter. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure, 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/pg27200/39/145/) [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 Golden Treasure](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/39/) / 145 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 145 "Shall I tell you news, Peter?" she asked when she came home. " **Who acts:** Peter · **What happens:** tell, ask, come · **To what, where:** news, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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:pg27200:39:145 # text = "Shall I tell you news, Peter?" she asked when she came home. " 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Shall shall INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 16 home home ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Peter | news | you | | | Peter *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient news=Topic | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Peter | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **come** | past | Peter | | | | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/39/144/) - next →: [sentence 146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/39/146/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Treasure](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/39/)