--- title: The farmer was very hungry, and ate his porridge with a good appetit… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The farmer was very hungry, and ate his porridge with a good appetite, but Little Claus could not help thinking of the nice roast meat, fish and pies, which he knew were in the oven. Who acts: farmer, Little Claus, Claus. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (farmer, Little Claus, Claus), 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:pg27200:71:45 # text = The farmer was very hungry, and ate his porridge with a good appetite, but Little Claus could not help thinking of the nice roast meat, fish and pies, which he knew were in the oven. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 porridge porridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 appetite appetite NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 Claus Claus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 22 thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 roast roast NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 pies pie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 obj _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 36 were be VERB VBD Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 oven oven NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the farmer | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | past | the farmer *not said here* | farmer's porridge | | | | with a good appetite | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porridge=Patient | | 3 | **not** **help** | could | Little Claus | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | gerund | Little Claus *not said here* | | | | | of the nice roast meat and fish and pies | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **know** | past | Claus | the nice roast meat and fish and pies | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | | 6 | **be** | past | Little Claus *not said here* | | | the oven | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in oven=Location | 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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/46/) - ↑ back to [Little Claus and Big Claus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/)