--- title: The younger was not Fortune herself, but the chambermaid of one of F… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The younger was not Fortune herself, but the chambermaid of one of Fortune's attendants, who carries about her more trifling gifts. Who acts: attendants. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Beginning, 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/pg27200/40/11/) [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/) / [A Beginning](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/40/) / 11 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Beginning, sentence 11 The younger was not Fortune herself, but the chambermaid of one of Fortune's attendants, who carries about her more trifling gifts. **Who acts:** attendants · **What happens:** not be, carry, trifle · **To what, where:** gifts This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Beginning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attendants), 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:pg27200:40:11 # text = The younger was not Fortune herself, but the chambermaid of one of Fortune's attendants, who carries about her more trifling gifts. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 advcl _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 Fortune fortune VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 chambermaid chambermaid NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 Fortune Fortune PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 attendants attendant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 about about ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 23 trifling trifle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 24 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | past | | | | | | the chambermaid of one of Fortune's attendants *obl*; fortune *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **carry** | present | Fortune's attendants | | | | | about cut | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **trifle** | gerund | Fortune's attendants *not said here* | gifts | | | | | 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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/40/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/40/12/) - ↑ back to [A Beginning](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/40/)