--- title: "Red-head," said the soldiers, and little Peter laughed; but when on… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Red-head," said the soldiers, and little Peter laughed; but when one of them sometimes said to another, "Foxey," he would bite his teeth together and look another way--into the wide world. Who acts: Red head, little Peter, head. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (Red head, little Peter, head), 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:pg27200:39:58 # text = "Red-head," said the soldiers, and little Peter laughed; but when one of them sometimes said to another, "Foxey," he would bite his teeth together and look another way--into the wide world. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 advcl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod _ _ 21 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 22 advmod _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 Foxey Foxey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 together together ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 38 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 39 det _ _ 39 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 -- -- PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 into into ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Red head | the soldiers | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent soldier=Topic | | 2 | **laugh** | past | little Peter | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Red head *not said here* | | | | | to another; sometimes *property* | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to another=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 4 | **bite** | would | head | head's teeth | | | | together *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 5 | **look** | infinitive | head *not said here* | another way and the wide world | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Attribute | 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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/39/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/39/59/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Treasure](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/39/)