--- title: Mamma-in-law had set up Thorwalsden's bust at the end of the table,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Mamma-in-law had set up Thorwalsden's bust at the end of the table, attired in a dressing-gown; it was her fancy that he should be a guest. Who acts: bust, wedding, Thorwalsden. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (bust, wedding, Thorwalsden), 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:pg27200:7:86 # text = Mamma-in-law had set up Thorwalsden's bust at the end of the table, attired in a dressing-gown; it was her fancy that he should be a guest. 1 Mamma Mamma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 Thorwalsden Thorwalsden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 bust bust NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 attired attire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 dressing dressing NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 gown gown NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 fancy fancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 32 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 cop _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 guest guest NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set up** | past · perfect · passive | | Mamma | | | at the end of the table | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme bust=Destination | | 2 | **attire** | participle | | the table *not said here* | | | | in a dressing gown | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in gown=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | past | bust | Thorwalsden's fancy | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | should | wedding | a guest | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **bust** | | Thorwalsden | | | | | | nom bust «event transitive»: poss=agent | 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 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/87/) - ↑ back to [Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/)