--- title: There was no one under whose care he could leave Little Christina; s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: There was no one under whose care he could leave Little Christina; so she was almost always with him in his boat, or playing in the wood among the blossoming heath, or picking the ripe wild berries. Who acts: one, gentleman, forest. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, gentleman, forest), 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:pg27200:51:13 # text = There was no one under whose care he could leave Little Christina; so she was almost always with him in his boat, or playing in the wood among the blossoming heath, or picking the ripe wild berries. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 under under ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 Little Little ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 10 obj _ _ 12 Christina Christina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 17 almost almost ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 23 advmod _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 conj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 among among ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 blossoming blossom VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 amod _ _ 33 heath heath NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 picking pick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 ripe ripe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 39 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 berries berry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | no one under no one under no one's care's care | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **leave** | could | gentleman | Little | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | forest | | | gentleman's boat | | always *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **play** | gerund | forest *not said here* | | | the wood | | among the blossoming heath | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **blossom** | gerund | | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **pick** | gerund | forest *not said here* | the ripe wild berries | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient | | 7 | **care** | | no one under no one under care's care | | | | | | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/14/) - ↑ back to [Ib and Little Christina](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/51/)