--- title: "What beautiful things you have brought home!" said his old foster-m… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "What beautiful things you have brought home!" said his old foster-mother; and her strange-looking eagle-eyes sparkled, while she wriggled and twisted her skinny neck more quickly and strangely than ever. " Who acts: old foster mother, she. 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" **Who acts:** old foster mother, she · **What happens:** bring, say, look, sparkle, wriggle, twist · **To what, where:** beautiful things, looking eagle eyes, skinny neck · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old foster mother, she), 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:pg27200:57:1 # text = "What beautiful things you have brought home!" said his old foster-mother; and her strange-looking eagle-eyes sparkled, while she wriggled and twisted her skinny neck more quickly and strangely than ever. " 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 3 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 ccomp _ _ 8 home home ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 13 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 14 foster foster NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 20 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 amod _ _ 23 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 26 sparkled sparkle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 while while SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 wriggled wriggle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 twisted twist VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 skinny skinny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 37 advmod _ _ 37 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 strangely strangely ADV RB _ 37 conj _ _ 40 than than ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | beautiful things | | | | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination what=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | his old foster mother | her looking eagle eyes | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **sparkle** | participle | | her looking eagle eyes *not said here* | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **wriggle** | past | she | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **twist** | past | she *not said here* | her skinny neck | | | | quickly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=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. 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