--- title: The lady, who was his mistress, or of whom he was master, carried a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The lady, who was his mistress, or of whom he was master, carried a bottle of milk, of which the little dog now and then drank; she also offered him pieces of sugar to crunch. Who acts: lady, mistress, little dog. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Jour --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/12/) [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/) / [II. the Journey to the New Home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/) / 12 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 12 The lady, who was his mistress, or of whom he was master, carried a bottle of milk, of which the little dog now and then drank; she also offered him pieces of sugar to crunch. **Who acts:** lady, mistress, little dog · **What happens:** be, carry, drink, offer, crunch · **To what, where:** mistress, bottle, pieces This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, mistress, little dog), 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:pg27200:53:12 # text = The lady, who was his mistress, or of whom he was master, carried a bottle of milk, of which the little dog now and then drank; she also offered him pieces of sugar to crunch. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 mistress mistress NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 master master ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 16 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 obl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 30 drank drink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 also also ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 offered offer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 iobj _ _ 36 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 crunch crunch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the lady | grandfather's mistress | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | mistress | | | | | master *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **carry** | past | the lady | a bottle of milk | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme | | 4 | **drink** | past | the little dog | | | | now; then | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of which=Source | | 5 | **offer** | past | lady | pieces of sugar | mistress | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal piece=Theme | | 6 | **crunch** | to-infinitive | lady *not said here* | | | | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | 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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/13/) - ↑ back to [II. the Journey to the New Home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/53/)