--- title: In consequence of this dislike, the sexton had gone to visit the far… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: In consequence of this dislike, the sexton had gone to visit the farmer's wife during her husband's absence from home, and the good woman had placed before him the best she had in the house to eat. Who acts: sexton, best, husband. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (sexton, best, 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:pg27200:71:34 # text = In consequence of this dislike, the sexton had gone to visit the farmer's wife during her husband's absence from home, and the good woman had placed before him the best she had in the house to eat. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 consequence consequence NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 5 dislike dislike NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sexton sexton NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 17 during during ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 absence absence NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 31 before before ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 36 nsubj _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past · perfect | the sexton | | | consequence of this dislike | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **visit** | to-infinitive | the sexton *not said here* | the farmer's wife | | home | during sexton's husband's absence | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Co-Agent | | 3 | **place** | past · perfect · passive | | the good woman | | | before Claus | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination | | 4 | **have** | past | the best | | | the house | | | tree rules | | 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the best *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **absent** | | sexton's husband | | | | | | nom absence «state 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 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/35/) - ↑ back to [Little Claus and Big Claus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/)