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title: "Babette also wished him farewell; but her voice sounded as mournful… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Babette also wished him farewell; but her voice sounded as mournful as the mew of a little kitten that has lost its mother. Who acts: Babette, voice, little kitten. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 67

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"Babette also wished him farewell; but her voice sounded as mournful as the mew of a little kitten that has lost its mother.

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**Who acts:** Babette, voice, little kitten · **What happens:** wish, sound, lose, mew · **To what, where:** Rudy, little kitten

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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 (Babette, voice, little kitten), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:57:67
# text = "Babette also wished him farewell; but her voice sounded as mournful as the mew of a little kitten that has lost its mother.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	farewell	farewell	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	mournful	mournful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mew	mew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	kitten	kitten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** *in a quote* | past | Babette | Rudy |  |  |  | farewell *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
| 2 | **sound** *in a quote* | past | Babette's voice |  |  |  |  | mournful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lose** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | a little kitten |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mew** *in a quote* |  | a little kitten |  |  |  |  |  | nom mew «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**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.

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