--- title: Kind Martha warmed a mug of beer for her, with butter and sugar--she… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Kind Martha warmed a mug of beer for her, with butter and sugar--she considered this the best medicine--and then hastened to the river, washed and rinsed, badly enough, to be sure, but she did her best. Who acts: Kind, mother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (Kind, mother), 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:pg27200:46:82 # text = Kind Martha warmed a mug of beer for her, with butter and sugar--she considered this the best medicine--and then hastened to the river, washed and rinsed, badly enough, to be sure, but she did her best. 1 Kind Kind PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Martha Martha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 warmed warm VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 mug mug NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 beer beer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 -- -- PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 considered consider VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 obj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 amod _ _ 21 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 -- -- PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 25 hastened hasten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 washed wash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 parataxis _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 rinsed rinse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ _ 35 enough enough ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 cop _ _ 39 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 but but CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 44 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **warm** | past | Kind | a mug of beer | | | | for mother | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mug=Patient | | 2 | **consider** | past | mother | this | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Attribute | | 3 | **hasten** | participle | | | | the river | then | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to river=Destination | | 4 | **wash** | participle | | | | | | badly *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **rinse** | participle | | | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **do** | past | mother | mother's best | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=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. 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 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/46/81/) - next →: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/46/83/) - ↑ back to [She Was Good For Nothing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/46/)