--- title: For a moment, Alfred's respect for Kaela's mamma underwent a sudden… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: For a moment, Alfred's respect for Kaela's mamma underwent a sudden shock, and lessened considerably; but, dazzled by the light which surrounded Kaela, he soon found it quite natural that the old lady should have no eye for color. Who acts: respect, Kaela, old lady, Alfred. 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C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (respect, Kaela, old lady, Alfred), 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:pg27200:7:63 # text = For a moment, Alfred's respect for Kaela's mamma underwent a sudden shock, and lessened considerably; but, dazzled by the light which surrounded Kaela, he soon found it quite natural that the old lady should have no eye for color. 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 Alfred Alfred PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 Kaela Kaela PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 mamma mamma NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 underwent undergo VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 shock shock NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 lessened lessen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 considerably considerably ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 dazzled dazzle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 29 Kaela Kaela PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ _ 33 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 quite quite ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 41 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 ccomp _ _ 43 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 44 det _ _ 44 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 for for ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 color color NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **undergo** | past | Alfred's respect for Kaela's mamma | a sudden shock | | | moment | | tree rules | | 2 | **lessen** | past | Alfred's respect for Kaela's mamma *not said here* | | | | | considerably *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **dazzle** | participle | Alfred's respect for Kaela's mamma *not said here* | | | | | by the light | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **surround** | participle · passive | Kaela | the light | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | | 5 | **find** | past | respect | shock | | | | natural, soon *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 6 | **have** | should | the old lady | no eye | | | | for color | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 7 | **respect** | | Alfred | | | | | for Kaela's mamma | nom respect «cognition transitive»: poss=agent for=obl | 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/64/) - ↑ back to [Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/)