--- title: The farmer's wife opened the door; but when she heard what he wanted… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The farmer's wife opened the door; but when she heard what he wanted, she told him to go away, as her husband would not allow her to admit strangers. " Who acts: wife, farmer, husband. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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" **Who acts:** wife, farmer, husband · **What happens:** open, hear, want, tell, go away, not allow · **To what, where:** door, farmer, wife, strangers · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, farmer, husband), 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:pg27200:71:23 # text = The farmer's wife opened the door; but when she heard what he wanted, she told him to go away, as her husband would not allow her to admit strangers. " 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 12 obj _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 22 away away ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 allow allow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 admit admit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 33 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past | the farmer's wife | the door | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | | 2 | **hear** | past | wife | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 3 | **want** | past | farmer | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | wife | | farmer | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **go away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **allow** | would | wife's husband | | wife | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **admit** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | wife's husband *not said here* | strangers | | | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=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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