--- title: Kaela stood silent, but nodded in approbation of what he said, while… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Kaela stood silent, but nodded in approbation of what he said, while mamma-in-law made the following confession:-- Who acts: Kaela, smile, mamma. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/78/) [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/) / [Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/) / 78 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 78 Kaela stood silent, but nodded in approbation of what he said, while mamma-in-law made the following confession:-- **Who acts:** Kaela, smile, mamma · **What happens:** stand, nod, say, make, follow · **To what, where:** following confession · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (Kaela, smile, mamma), 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:pg27200:7:78 # text = Kaela stood silent, but nodded in approbation of what he said, while mamma-in-law made the following confession:-- 1 Kaela Kaela PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 nodded nod VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 approbation approbation NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nmod _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 14 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 15 mamma mamma NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 amod _ _ 23 confession confession NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 -- -- PUNCT NFP _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | Kaela | | | | | silent *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **nod** | participle | Kaela *not said here* | | | | | in approbation | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in approbation=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | smile | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | past | mamma and law | the following confession | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset confession=Product | | 5 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: 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 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/79/) - ↑ back to [Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/)