--- title: She had her papers with her, and we advised her to put them in an en… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: She had her papers with her, and we advised her to put them in an envelope, and to write thereon the address of the proprietor of the estate, "General War-Commissary Knight," &c. Who acts: dog, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief, with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/5/) [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 Great Grief](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/) / 5 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 5 She had her papers with her, and we advised her to put them in an envelope, and to write thereon the address of the proprietor of the estate, "General War-Commissary Knight," &c. **Who acts:** dog, we · **What happens:** have, advise, put, write, address · **To what, where:** papers, dog, envelope, address, proprietor This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, we), 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:pg27200:47:5 # text = She had her papers with her, and we advised her to put them in an envelope, and to write thereon the address of the proprietor of the estate, "General War-Commissary Knight," &c. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 papers paper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 advised advise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 envelope envelope NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 22 thereon thereon ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 address address NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 proprietor proprietor NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 estate estate NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 General General PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod:desc _ _ 34 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 Commissary Commissary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 Knight Knight PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 40 & & CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 41 c. c. NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | dog | dog's papers | | | | with her *= she* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Patient | | 2 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | we | | dog | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 3 | **put** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | papers *= paper* | | a envelope | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in envelope=Destination | | 4 | **write** | to-infinitive | dog *not said here* | the address of the proprietor of the estate | | | | Commissary Knight *obl*; c. *obl* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent address=Theme | | 5 | **address** | | | the proprietor of the estate | | | | | nom address «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/6/) - ↑ back to [A Great Grief](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/47/)