--- title: Grandmother is very old, her face is wrinkled, and her hair is quite… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Grandmother is very old, her face is wrinkled, and her hair is quite white; but her eyes are like two stars, and they have a mild, gentle expression in them when they look at you, which does you good. Who acts: Grandmother, hair, eyes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grandmother, hair, eyes), 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:pg27200:46:169 # text = Grandmother is very old, her face is wrinkled, and her hair is quite white; but her eyes are like two stars, and they have a mild, gentle expression in them when they look at you, which does you good. 1 Grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 wrinkled wrinkle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 quite quite ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 30 mild mild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 expression expression NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nmod _ _ 36 when when SCONJ WRB _ 38 mark _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 43 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 44 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Grandmother | | | | | old *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **wrinkle** | present · passive | | mother's face | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | mother's hair | | | | | white *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | mother's eyes | | | | | like two stars | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | present | eyes *= eye* | a mild gentle expression | | | | in stars *= star* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Patient | | 6 | **look** | present | eyes *= eye* | | | | | at you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme | | 7 | **do** | present | | you | | | | good *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | 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. 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